Where and what is my network? Is it in the virtual world? Because the virtual is also real, tangible. Who says learning has to be defined by a course material, a science, a topic, a concept. So they say my best textbook is every patient encounter. So are they also my personal learning network? DEFINITION,Continue reading “PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK”

The new topic of ‘Open Learning’ surfaced ideological positions related to education as a whole. Should we share our resources and knowledge with the world, now that more than ever we have the ability to do so? Is education a private or a public good? This is a binary that I have mulled over beforeContinue reading “The Topic 2 Blog: Open Learning – sharing and openness”

The team sessions and webinars of the last few weeks have made me wonder about the boundaries of openness. Who defines them? Is it the individual, the organization, or perhaps the circumstance and need? Making students’ work public or sharing them within a closed group has been debated in several institutes of higher learning. Also,Continue reading “How open is open?”

Openness in education Enjoying education without restriction, this is my understanding of what a open education is about. Wiley and Green, mentioned that there are three principal influence of openness on education: open educational resources, ope…

I put my hand up when the question was asked which topic I would be happy to co-lead. Openness and sharing- an ethos I resonate with. I especially liked this definition “Openness can be conceived of as an attitude or worldview which includes making oneself vulnerable, narrating one’s own practice and sharing one’s incomplete scholarshipContinue reading “Redrawing the lines”

Openness in my world has led to advancement, extensive collaboration in the face of pressing needs. An explosion of information overload. From individual patient medical and health data to global scale pandemic solutions. Ideally sharing would allow access to others to recreate and circulate. What better way to make new knowledge accessible for all toContinue reading “OPEN”

Prior to learning about topic 2, I was wondering about the quality assurance of resources in Open Learning platform. However, at the completion of Topic 2, I feel that my perceptions towards open learning has changed- it is not that bad after all! I analyzed the concept of quality assurance in relation to openness learningContinue reading “Openness Learning: Weighing the Pros & Cons of Quality Assurance”

I am a believer in teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, synergy. As the world shrinks and brings learners together the power of teamwork becomes ever apparent. The journey of the past several weeks has been energizing and motivating, in large part due to the diversity and investment of the collective. In the 1960s Bruce Tuckman put forthContinue reading “Performing teams”

Professional Digital Identity    Professional Digital Identity, what is it, why do we need it, and how can we create it and maintain it? These are the questions that I wish to explore in this short blog post.    A Professi…