PBL group 06 – Page 21 – Open Networked Learning

Openness in education

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) revolutionize the concept of higher education. The courses do not have to squeeze the learning environment within the classrooms anymore. The value of a MOOC for student learning depends on how learning processes are facilitated, stimulated and assessed. However, before considering these elements of MOOC, joining an online course shouldOkumaya devam et “Openness in education”

Topic 2: Openness in education

Posted on April 14, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

When we refer to open education, we usually think about an education that is offered without requirements for academic admission and nowadays is primarily supported by digital technologies. An essential quality of open education is the removal of barri…

Opening up…

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Robert Ciuchita

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake, circa 1793 Before starting to work on this topic I thought open education boils down to opening access to courses (i.e., making courses available to everyone, not justContinue reading “Opening up…”

Open: a multifaceted concept and a question of responsibility

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Lucia C

Open. If we look at dictionary definitions we can find explanations of what open means in terms of “having no enclosing or confining barrier; accessible on all or nearly all sides; completely free from concealment; exposed to general view or knowledge. What does open mean in relation to learning? All these things, actually, but inContinue reading “Open: a multifaceted concept and a question of responsibility”

TOPIC 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

I truly enjoyed Topic 2 more than that of Topic 1. This is probably because of we are getting used to the course’s system and got to know each other better in the group 6 as well as Alastair Creelman, a good facilitator. I spent much more time for this course than I thought IOkumaya devam et “TOPIC 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

Topic 1: A course, a community, an approach?

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

I am a professor, teaching in a vet school in Turkey (Erciyes University). It has been about 20 years since I started teaching animal nutrition classes. After all these years, I thought I should justify my classical teaching techniques and the meet the needs of students in learning process through 21th century. Changing became myOkumaya devam et “Topic 1: A course, a community, an approach?”

So what’s the story with this ONL course?

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Robert Ciuchita

Topic 1- Online Participation and Digital Literacies I have joined the ONL course because pedagogical training is a tenure track requirement at my school. Since I teach topics related to digital marketing to MsC and PhD students, I was intrigued by what this course has to offer. Just before starting my ONL journey, I finishedContinue reading “So what’s the story with this ONL course?”

Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Jukka Välimäki

Openness in education means open resources, open tools and open participation courses. It’s about sharing materials, collaboration and allowing learning. Openness requires trust. For example, I can share my materials with a Creative Commons license that requires giving appropriate credit to the licensor, but I have to trust that others know and respect the license.Continue reading “Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness”

Open Pedagogy

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Kiruthika Ragupathi

The idea of open in higher education has multiple interpretations, and a considerable lack of clarity, partly due to the use of varied terms such as the Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open education, Open lear…

Topic 1: Teaching and learning in a digital world

Posted on March 25, 2020April 14, 2020 by iouant

Have you ever thought about taking an online course? What about teaching one? Nowadays education has expanded beyond books and classroom walls as digital learning is establishing all over the planet in the form of open universities or online courses, s…

Web as a place & a digital culture shock

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Jukka Välimäki

Have you ever experienced a culture shock? Being in a new environment and having a feeling disorientation, having hard time in finding your own comfortable role in the new society or situation? The notion of ‘culture shock’ came in into my mind after familiarizing myself with David S. White’s idea of people as ‘Visitors’ andContinue reading “Web as a place & a digital culture shock”

Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Lucia C

A worried student was the protagonist of the first topic scenario in the online connected learning course I am taking. Were I myself worried? Unsure? Uncomfortable? And was it because of the technology? Or because of working with people I have never met? And not only working, but also having to collaborate and produce aContinue reading “Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power”