Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

Past weeks I have been learning about OER – Open Educational Resources. It is a vast field and OER touches on several aspects within the realm of education. One aspect that caught my interest is how OER challenges the traditional academic publication system. Along with publishing something questions about such as copyright, validity, authority, rigor … Continue reading Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

OPEN LEARNING – sharing and openness (Topic 2)

During these last weeks I have been overwhelmed by the mass of shared feelings, ideas, tools and experiences on the ONL192 blogs. I have only just begun reading and taking part and is finding it totally wonderful (and a bit stressful). Besides from discussing different definitions of open education/open pedagogy/open resources we have been focusing […]

Open Learning — Sharing and Openness

Digital tools for teaching and learning are almost a need in the contemporaneous classroom. Education is in superficiem, a communication process, therefore its ontology is strongly influenced by the technological evolution of the media [1]. The inclusion of new technologies in the teaching process has motivated that high profile educational institutions to create online coursesContinue reading “Open Learning — Sharing and Openness”

When one door closes, another one… BANG!

This week our Open Network Learning (ONL) community engaged in the conversation of ‘going open’ with educational resources. In theory, this would include; text, audio and video teaching materials created by educators/scholars. Placed online means a carbon copy released to the world with no clue for where it may end up. #Daunting FREE for ALLContinue reading “When one door closes, another one… BANG!”

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Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Originally posted on sivjonss blogging:
Fascinating two weeks, and much learning has taken place around Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) ! The introduction to openness in education by Kay Oddone (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and Alastair Creelman (Linnaeus University, Sweden) gave me so many new insights and I needed to…

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Dear colleagues, Halfway through the course, we hope you have enjoyed the journey so far and that last week gave you opportunities to reflect and maybe catch up with your learning blog. Topic 3 – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning begins today!  Is 1+1=2 or is there more to it? The coming two weeks […]