Openness in education – What is it about?

The last two weeks have been about openness in education. My first thoughts on this topic was that this is something that I don’t work a lot with, and also that I don’t really have any intention of doing so. However, when we have discussed this topic and I have read more about it I […]

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Topic 2: Open Learning-Sharing and Openness

In topic two, I had a chance to learn about sharing and openness, and think about the pros and cons of openness in teaching and learning. In a sense, like the visitor and residence continuum in the digital world, there is a continuum of sharing and openness. I might be very open at times, as […]

Online participation

My first time to use internet can be dated back to 1999. At that time I first got an email account and sent emails to my pen-friends in the US. Slowly I learned to use internet to look for information and other social media. I was very keen om learning new staff online until about […]

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My digital identity

The topic for the last two weeks has been online participation and digital literacies. I really like the idea that we should talk about digital literacies in plural because there are so many tools and you can be fluent in one and not in another. We have talked a lot about David White’s (see e.g. […]

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Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Open networked learning course had kicked off, and it has already introduced me to new concepts like native digitals and immigrant digitals as two distinct groups within digital literacy. But wait! Like any other concept we use in social sciences, digital literacy, which is often defined as “those capabilities which fit an individual for living, […]

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Teaching Symbiosis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

I went to Cameroon to develop international relationships with potential local collaborators. I visited the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Congo Basin Institute (CBI, affiliated to UCLA in USA), which are two well-implanted Institutes in the Yaoundé region. And I visited the University of Yaounde 1, department of animal biology, to give … Continue reading Teaching Symbiosis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Connecting

This week we got to meet all the group members. It was exciting to learn more about other teachers from all over the world, but at the same time I also felt a little nervous. But I guess that is why I am here, to challenge and to develop!