#ONL191 – Page 2 – Open Networked Learning

SOUTH AFRICA IGNORE EARLY WARNINGS OF CORONAVIRUS. A biggest failure of intelligence in our lifetime.

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Sinako Mxabo Foundation

Our little information about intelligence community especially foreign counter intelligence is to alert the country about any possible dangers that can harm the country at large. We always thought we are safe given the structure of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) predecessor State Security Agency (SSA) which consist of domestic and foreign unit whose main roles … Continue reading SOUTH AFRICA IGNORE EARLY WARNINGS OF CORONAVIRUS. A biggest failure of intelligence in our lifetime.

EASTERN CAPE MUST QUARANTINE ITS BORDERS TO AVOID EASTER WEEKEND HORROR.

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sinako Mxabo Foundation

Eastern Cape is one of the provinces in South Africa that has not detected any COVID 19 virus to its 6.25 million people. According to health Spokesperson in that province, this is not because EC has drastic or strict measures to fight this disease that has already took lives of more that 12 000 people … Continue reading EASTERN CAPE MUST QUARANTINE ITS BORDERS TO AVOID EASTER WEEKEND HORROR.

Being Open: Drawing parallels from the Coffee House Model

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Kiruthika Ragupathi

What does ‘being open’ mean and what is its value? Does the value lie in open content? Does the value lie in the interactions that occur through discussions? Does the value lie in openness created within social places, and not always confined to an ins…

Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Alexandra Wirth

Ursprünglich veröffentlicht auf sivjonss blogging:
The topic In this topic ‘Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning’, our PBL group were interested in the term ‘connectivism’. I particularly enjoyed reading the original article on this by George Siemens from 2005. There were so many aspects included in the founding of this –ism that…

The (delightfully) macabre stories of host behavior manipulations by parasites

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Anne Duplouy

Are you truly the master of your own behaviors? This lecture presents some examples that may make you think twice! I presented this lecture to acquire the title of Docent in Biology from the Lund University, Sweden. The aim was for my peers to judge my teaching competences, and for me to convey a message … Continue reading The (delightfully) macabre stories of host behavior manipulations by parasites

Where am I in this digital world?

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Alexandra Wirth

Ursprünglich veröffentlicht auf Learning to Learn with Technology:
The Topic 1 subject was about online participation and digital literacies. We had an amazing webinar with David White, and in our PBL group we discussed about advantages to use digital tools and how to became a digital resident. …

Teaching Symbiosis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Anne Duplouy

I went to Cameroon to develop international relationships with potential local collaborators. I visited the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Congo Basin Institute (CBI, affiliated to UCLA in USA), which are two well-implanted Institutes in the Yaoundé region. And I visited the University of Yaounde 1, department of animal biology, to give … Continue reading Teaching Symbiosis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Final reflections on open networked learning

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

This is the fifth and final blogposts that I’m writing as coursework for a teacher training course on open networked learning (ONL). During my academic career I’ve attended a handful of such training courses at several Swedish universities – some … Continue reading →

Collaborative course design – easy as ABC

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

This is the fourth of five blogposts that I’m writing as coursework for a teacher training course on open networked learning (ONL). In my previous blogpost, I argued why academics need extensive personal learning networks and described my continuous conversations … Continue reading →

Personal learning networks and the efficient academic

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

This is the third of five blogposts that I’m writing as coursework for a teacher training course on open networked learning (ONL). In my previous blogpost, I reflected on various forms of openness in higher education and the potentially negative … Continue reading →

Deep work and open learning

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Sune Bechmann Pedersen

This is the second of five blogposts that I’m writing as coursework for a teacher training course on open networked learning (ONL). In my previous blogpost, I reflected on the deeply flawed concepts of digital natives and digital immigrants after … Continue reading →

Topic 4 – Sharing as a group

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Francisco Martins Teixeira

Hello again! Topic 4 was a great opportunity to share our impressions about Gilly Salmon’s five-step model allowing us to discuss some important prerequisites for digital literacy or knowledge construction with attention to online socialization and information exchange. Using Padlet … Continuar lendo →