One of our group members was asked to share her understanding and experiences about collaboration in a narrative form. The rest of us in the group listened and perhaps tried to understand how close or how far we are from her experiences a…

A course, a community, an approach
One of our group members was asked to share her understanding and experiences about collaboration in a narrative form. The rest of us in the group listened and perhaps tried to understand how close or how far we are from her experiences a…
This has been a fascinating topic. In our PBL group discussions, we have considered open learning as a concept or aspiration or even fear from multiple perspectives–institutional, teacher, learner and more. We also emphasized the directions in conversations on open learning that split into more pedagogical focus and more social justice oriented focus. While my […]
First of all, I would like to state, for the record, that I am a key believer of sharing educational materials for the benefit of students. However, I feel that there are still challenges that need to be addressed with regards to open learning. As ment…
This blogpost is a part of #ONL221Photo by Pratik Gupta on UnsplashThroughout the past two weeks, as we were discussing the various factors that determine openness and how value in OE is determined in my problem based learning (PBL) group, I found myse…
My Experience I began teaching in 1998. In 1997, when the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore, began introducing the Masterplans for ICT in Education, quite a number of educators were relatively new to information technology and were hence rather …
My Experience I began teaching in 1998. In 1997. When the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore, began introducing the Masterplans for ICT in Education, quite a number of educators were relatively new to information technology and were hence rather …
Our university National University of Singapore has offered MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses on two platforms on edX ( https://www.edx.org/school/nus) and Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/nus). The courses are from different schools and faculties and are offered for free to all. I believe the courses were selected or have some process of approval procedure to publish on […]
Let us reimagine openness: Case study-The women of Kookal Before my present adventure as a Lecturer at National University of Singapore, I lived for five years in a small hamlet nestled…
It has been two weeks of exploring the topic of online participation and digital literacies with our PBL group members. Seems everybody has their own perspective on this. For me, the scenario exactly described myself when the pandemic first started. Well selected, ONL course creators. Not to mention the online lessons, I totally had no […]
As I embark on the learning journey on open learning, here ‘s some of my take-aways from the topic 2 webinar on sharing and openness where the guest speaker Bali Maha shared with us her experiences and thought-provoking insights. 1. Cupcake …
This is my first participation in an open networked learning adventure with ONL221. I joined this course at a time when I was in the middle of a busy schedule. It’s been quite a hectic period over the past month due to a project I had embarked on…
Digital Competency and the diagnosis of it is complex.So I spent some time looking at the DigComp framework and I realised that the issue with Digital Competency and the definitions of the different levels of competencies and I cannot help but fe…