Topics – Page 19 – Open Networked Learning

On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Daniel de Augustinis

As expected from its title, this paper by Wenger tells the history of a concept, including its main criticisms. Wenger promises to resort to a group of authors coming from different traditions. whom he groups together as “social theory”. These authors include French philosopher Michel Foucault, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, American social anthropologist Jean Lave,Continue reading “On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).”

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…

Reflection week – essential time to catch up!

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Silke Welter

Reflection week gives me time to catch up with all the ONL tasks I didn´t have enough time for during the last weeks. Next to setting up and organizing myself and the rest of the family in home-office, several online-meetings to convince teachers of the benefits of online-teaching (which is unavoidable at the moment dueContinue reading “Reflection week – essential time to catch up!”

What to do in times of information overload?

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Sophie Ellermann

Openly sharing and learning – Is there a right way to do it? No. Education can happen in a vast amount of ways. Bringing it online, sharing it with everyone that’s interested, allowing anyone to take part – this promises benefits for everyone involved. Or doesn’t? The answer resulting from our group work could beContinue reading “What to do in times of information overload?”

He-men and other observations around the enclosures of open online learning

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Niko Solitander

In this blog post I continue to anchor serious pedagogical topics (openness of Open Learning) in happy-go-lucky, not so serious 1980s cultural references (He-Man).

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Jess

Image by Mark Mags from Pixabay Topic 2 proved to be an interesting one for me – I enjoyed being able to share areas where I had some experience, and it was wonderful to learn from my PBL group members about areas of expertise and experience they had. I was able to explore even further … Continue reading Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

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”

Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Jess

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay My teaching career began in a time when computers were first starting to be implemented in schools. There were computer labs where you could book in and students would work on very simple tasks that integrated technology. In late 2008, Australia’s then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched the Digital … Continue reading Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Reflections on topic 2: openness in education

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Victoria Marín

These last weeks we have been addressing the topic 2 of the Open Networked Learning course, being the focus on open learning. I would like to reflect on two activities in which I have participated: the work in my PBL group and the OER Conference 2020. However, I will introduce first some general reflections related… Continue reading Reflections on topic 2: openness in education

Reflections on Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Matti Karlsson

Dear blog and readers, Openness in my teaching practice has not been an issue so far. Courses at our university of applied sciences (TAMK) have been targeted mainly to the degree students, who have access to e.g. our Moodle LMS, where majority of the courses reside. However, the students have been free to use the … Continue reading Reflections on Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Reflections on the #OER20 presentation of @OpenNetLearn

Posted on April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 by Jörg Pareigis

On Thursday, I presented together with my dear colleague Lars Uhlin our open online course Open Networked Learning during #OER20. You can find the recording here. The session started with a presentation by Bonnie Stewart, Dave Cormier and their colleagues…

Open Educational Ressources

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Clarissa Sielemann

This Week we talked a lot about OER (Open Educational Ressources) and our experiences with them.For me OER are an ideal tool for learning especially in higher education. I think it’s very important to publish articles and research findings in general open and free. Therefore everyone no matter of there country or status has access … Continue reading Open Educational Ressources