OK, so ten weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL191 around mid-February, and how you feel now, about the digital stuff that’s available out there, about your own capability? We hope you have found what you were looking for when […]

Welcome to topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning
Welcome to topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning We hope that you all at this point of time in the course feel quite well-settled with the ONL learning environment and that you have found a good structure for your studies and PBL group work. It seems that the previous topic on Learning […]

Welcome to second week of topic 3!
At this point in the course, you have left the first two topics behind you and are halfway through the third. You may have used new tools, seen benefits of openness that you were not previously aware of and possibly experienced collaboration in a different way. We hope you are enjoying the course even though […]

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
Dear colleagues, Halfway through the course, we hope you have enjoyed it so far and learnt a lot! Topic 3 – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning begins today! Please note that Europe changed time this weekend (because of day-light-saving) and now it is CEST (Central European Summer Time) and no longer CET (Central […]

Topic 2 continues
We hope you are enjoying your exploration of open education and the implications of sharing and open practice. If you missed last week’s webinar please watch the recording and you are still welcome to contribute to the excellent discussion on the topic’s Padlet page. On that page you can access the introduction lecture, the webinar […]

Topic 2 – Open learning, sharing and openness
We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]

Second week of topic 1 – participating online and increasing digital skills
So, we’re well into the second week of topic 1 and you are probably beginning to find your feet. Last week’s webinar was attended by many despite the last minute forced changes of rooms! For this week, we have a tweetchat, tomorrow Thursday 14 March, at 11.00-12.00 CET (check your timezone). Create a Twitter account if […]

At last – proper course start: topic 1!
Dear colleagues, We’ve seen a great start of ONL191 with lots of activity in the common ONL191 community space, in the PBL groups and in the blogs! We know that the first weeks of the course feel slightly overwhelming to most participants – but don’t worry, it will get a lot clearer once you start […]

Week 2: “Connecting” starts today!
Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL191 and there is already lots of activity in the ONL191 group and on twitter! There are almost 100 registered participants who will study in 13 mixed PBL groups! In the course common ONL191 group there are also all facilitators and a few more ONL friends. Last […]

Week 1: “Getting started” starts today!
Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL191 with a completely new homepage! There are around 100 registered participants who will study in 13 mixed PBL groups! During this first week of “Getting started” you have an opportunity to create your user account for the ONL community space and […]

ONL191 – Ready to start!
ONL191 starts on Monday 18th February and we’re looking forward to meeting you all. On Monday all registered participants will receive an e-mail with full details of how to create an account and log into the course. Full information about the first week, Getting started, will be published very soon. The first week is all […]

ONL191 starting soon – work in progress?
The next iteration of ONL starts 18 February. The course team is busy planning for the course and building our new course site… exciting! Look at the overview, and register, here – obviously you’ll want to join?! If you are a previous ONL course participant, spread the word among your friends and colleagues! /The course team