Digital participation is now more or less mandatory. Few are the people that remain anonymous online without leaving digital traces. Teaching and learning increasingly take place in digital realms… Canvas… Google docs… Reflective blogs on the learning process. And these are not digital interactions of the web 1.0 variety, where we interact as visitors, findingContinue reading “Digital participation and digital literacies”

Most of us have probably been to a lecture. We know what it looks like and sounds like and could say (with a reasonable amount of certainty) if we were in one or not. But what exactly constitutes a lecture? What defines a lecture? This is actually quite hard to specify, especially as we increasinglyContinue reading “What is a lecture?”

I have decided to use this blog to reflect on another pedagogical course that I am taking in parallel with the Open Networked Learning (ONL) course. This second course is called The Good Lecture and, in some ways, it could be considered the polar opposite of the ONL course. The ONL course is about connectingContinue reading “The Good Lecture – 1”

I have recently begun a pedagogical course in open networked learning. The aim (I believe) is to equip teachers with tools to conduct open networked learning courses in the future and to give us the chance to experience some open networked learning of our own. You see, it’s very meta! The course is conducted onlineContinue reading “Open networked learning – Week 2”

My name is Carys and I am writing this series of blog posts as part of a pedagogical course I am taking called Open Networked Learning. I am a 41-year old British Swede living in Malmö. I have been studying and working at Lund University since I arrived in Sweden 10 years ago. First asContinue reading “Introducing myself”

Before wecan start to think about course design for online environments, I feel that it is vital to have a definition of what we want to achieve: What is a successful learning situation? How can success be defined in connection to learning? In defining this for myself, David Wiley’s TED talk from the 6th of … Continue reading “What is success in learning?”

Before wecan start to think about course design for online environments, I feel that it is vital to have a definition of what we want to achieve: What is a successful learning situation? How can success be defined in connection to learning? In defining this for myself, David Wiley’s TED talk from the 6th of … Continue reading “What is success in learning?”

Watching Kay Odonne’s interesting lecture on Personal Learning Networks for this week’s topic, I wondered: How collaborative is my PLN? And, on a more basic level, what exactly does my PLN look like? For the most part, I try to draw on many different sources of knowledge during day to day practices. I read the … Continue reading “Is my PLN a collaborative learning environment?”