Topics – Page 5 – Open Networked Learning

Networking and learning in the age of social media

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Farzaneh Karegar

I know myself as more of a visitor to the digital world than a resident. I have been always cautious of what I share online, to whom, and for what purposes. I have also been worried about how the information… Continue Reading →

Challenges in Collaborative Learning

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Eduard Enoiu

I reflected quite a lot on the frustrations of both teachers and students in online collaborative learning. I started by reading quite an interesting paper [1] that outlined some of these issues: Even if some of these issues seem generic enough to be applied to any collaborative learning tasks, I think many of the challenges […]

Yet again, collaborative learning is essential

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Lejla Islami

When I reflect on my communities and the impact of them in my professional development and learning in general, I realize that I do not follow a lot of people (I am not really active) on social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. However, by doing so I never thought I was lacking […]

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Anna Småros

Today I aim to reflect on open learning, which lies at the very heart of Open Networked Learning. The keyword here is open – what does open mean in terms of education? According to Catherine Cronin (2017), openness in this context refers to four aspects, namely open admission, free of charge, open educational resources (OER) … Continue reading Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Shared learnings- the paradigm shift in education

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Anna Mogren

The picture of a despot -someone telling his/her followers how to do things , understand the world and follow is…

Collaborative learning topic 3

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Linn Hongell

I have worked as a teacher for over 20 years and I have as long worked on getting students collaborating. During the first 17 years it was collaboration in class but since 2020 it has been much more online focused. Online has not been a major learning platform for my university before the pandemic and […]

Topic 1: …………..

Posted on April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 by Sergey Korotov

I write, write, write …… Ohhhhh …. fff

Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Anna Småros

Who in the teaching community has not heard of the theory of “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”, as proposed by Marc Prensky (2001)? Personally, I must admit that I had not read the original essay by Prensky. I had come into contact with Prensky’s concepts, however, especially that of digital natives, as his ideas had … Continue reading Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

My reflections on opening the education material in a course

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Eduard Enoiu

I reflected quite a lot on this topic, especially when thinking of the courses I teach. My main thoughts here relate to opening educational resources with other teachers and students. The idea is to help teachers get easy access to high-quality material. In the end the main goal is to reduce workload for teachers and […]

Wondeful weather

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Sergey Korotov

The weather is beautiful in our town today. Spring has come to our northern region. Nature is awakening from its winter sleep. The spring sun gives energy to live and create.

The wicked problem to open education

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Lejla Islami

Openness alone is not a virtue to better, improved education as it apart from benefits, entails risks as well. However, if combined and negotiated with different aspects it could lead to free, easily-to-access and flexible knowledge. In my view to open education and openness in general, I would like take a different approach, not only […]