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…

A space to share, to mentor, to set a vision for those who want to learn. How can we learn unless someone taught? How can we dare move into un chartered waters unless explore unless someone inspired? Content is plenty. But common sense is not. Common sense is unarticulated subtle information that everyone could notContinue reading “Personal sharing online.”

22nd March 2021 I was looking forward to the first topic with PBL group 5 – online participation and digital literacies – the useful quadrant developed by David White using a “visitor” and “resident” continuum and further divided by “personal” and “institutional” was particularly enlightening in replacing the “Digital Native” and “Digital Immigrant” binary setContinue reading “The Topic 1 Blog: Online Participation & Digital Literacies”

Digital Identity & Literacy – what it means to me Looking back, the birth of my digital identity must have been way back to two decades ago, when we bought our very first desktop computer(operating on Window 98) and created my first personal email too. Fast forward to 10 years later, work email was introducedContinue reading “Topic 1 : Online Participation and Digital Literacy”

What an enjoyable experience to have been part of the ONL211 Tweetchat. My first one at that! Navigating the online world is replete with challenges, and they come in all forms, from familiarity with the technology platform to framing concise byte sized thoughts. What works? The only way to know is by trying. What’s theContinue reading “Tweetering”