… the end of journey… or just the first step This was the last week of the ONL221 course. This week we reflected about what this course was about, what we learn, the experiences that we shared and the tools that we will bring to our future practice. Personally, I believe that this course was […]

When Covid arrived in 2020, and we had to close the university and move online, I wish I knew about all the opportunities that online would bring to my teaching practice. At the beginning, it felt impossible to be able to teach online 200+ students a topic that usually is taught on a classroom, specially […]

… where we did everything but work collaboratively. This is end of topic 3 in the ONL221 course, and it was hard. Let me start from the beginning… Topic 3 was focused on Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. As its name implies, this was about our experience working in teams or having our […]

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness Topic 2 was all about what do we think about openness. Openness is defined by The City University of New York as “the principle of freedom of access by all interested persons to the underlying data, to the processes, and to the final results” (https://www.cuny.edu/research/research-compliance/sponsored/guidance/post-award/openness/) And then, Bronwyn Hegarty […]

Online Participation and Digital Literacies. Week 3 done already… I am still lost but somehow (mainly with the great help of my colleagues) topic 1 is done! In this topic, we discussed about the GillySalmon model and the COI-Model. I knew already the GillySalmon model but the COI-Model was new to me. Here is how […]

The beginning… This week we start with this course on Open Network Learning and I am already lost. In general, I feel confident using online tool, but blogging has always been out of my comfort zone. I started by creating my blogg page (https://openlearningbyares.wordpress.com), that was easy enough. But then, I am at a lost. […] […]

The beginning… This week we start with this course on Open Network Learning and I am already lost. In general, I feel confident using online tool, but blogging has always been out of my comfort zone. I started by creating my blogg page (https://openlearningbyares.wordpress.com), that was easy enough. But then, I am at a lost. […]

In the first week of this course we were told that this would be an unpredictable adventure and that we would need to ‘trust the process’. While I didn’t understand it at the time, looking back I can agree that this was good advice! A major lesson I learned is that trusting the process doesn’tContinue reading “Trusting the process”

Zoom’s catchphrase is ‘we deliver happiness’ because sustainable happiness comes from making other people happy (Zoom Video Communications, 2021). Some of us may laugh at this because Zoom has certainly given us headaches alongside this so-called happiness! How many times have we said some version of this in the last two years – ‘can youContinue reading “The times they are a-changin’ – So we must change with them”