(source: https://focusresourcesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tortoise-hare.jpg)As topic 3 unfolded in our PBL group, it became quite clear that collaboration entails many aspects of learning. To view our flowerbed using the Lotus Blosso…

This topic is definitely my favourite one so far. Personally, I felt like it really allowed us to really question and confront questions about our roles and dynamics in the group. Then subsequently, our fundamental understanding of what it means t…

 Following the trend of open learning via online education in the current pandemic situation, we have discussed and decided to focus on two specific subjects related to openness and sharing, namely:• If decided to open up your&…

 Following the trend of open learning via online education in the current pandemic situation, we have discussed and decided to focus on two specific subjects related to openness and sharing, namely:• If decided to open up your&…

We did not have any group meetings or events this last week for ONL because it was ‘reflection week’. Much needed for sure as there has been much to think about after each ONL group meeting or webinar. I have also been in a particularly reflective mood, wrestling with conflicting thoughts about the direction of … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Reflection Week: Listening and Play”

Attitude towards openness Of the topics discussed by PBL08, one of them was: “what does open mean to us? How open would we be in sharing our resources?” Although the modern open education movement started in 2002, this remains a common question from faculty. Open education is founded on foundations of openness, sharing, critical pedagogy, … Continue reading Open Education in Higher Education & Open Pedagogy

For Topic 2 – Open Learning – Group 3 based its discussion on the three dimensions of openness introduced by Dalsgaard and Thestrup (Dalsgaard & Thestrup, 2015). The authors distinguish between Transparency, Communication, and Engagement, with Transparency referring to the interaction among students, Communication to the contact with the world outside the classroom, and EngagementContinue reading “Jan on Open Learning”

It was fair to say that most of the people in my PBL group were not familiar with OER and its uses prior to this week. During the first meeting, we started out with really basic questions. What is OER? What constitutes OER? How is OER used in the class…

I always thought of ‘open learning’ and ‘open access’ as making educational resources freely available to all online and was thrown completely off balance after hearing Maha Bali speak at our ONL webinar about OER as ‘Self’. Maha Bali and Susan Koseoglu argue for a broader understanding of open educational resource (OER) that goes beyond … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 2: Open Learning and the Growing of Plants   “