#ONL201 – Page 20 – Open Networked Learning

Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Carys Egan-Wyer

“Learning […] is an active process of creating connections and seeing patterns of information within and between these connections” (Oddone, 2019) Collaborative learning takes place when groups of learner work together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product (Gerlach 1994). It is contrasted with cooperative group work, in which learners tend toContinue reading “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Why everyone hates group work (and what do about it).

Posted on April 23, 2020 by joelmartinsson

“This assignment will be a group work”. When I as a bachelor and master student heard the teacher utter this sentence, two things immediately came to my mind: (1) not again and (2) if I can choose my own group member, who should I choose? Everyone of course reacts in different way to the prospectFortsätt läsa “Why everyone hates group work (and what do about it).”

What is a MOOC?

Posted on April 22, 2020 by mehrdad

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course, and if you search the web for how a MOOC should be designed and what can be considered a MOOC you get many different opinions and definitions. Apparently, it is easy to confuse and consider many forms of online teaching with the concept of MOOC (e..g, to sound … Continue reading What is a MOOC? →

Topic 2 – Openness in Education

Posted on April 22, 2020 by upeksha

Education in current context can be redefined as sharing knowledge among enthusiastic, potential learners. Being open in educational materials and creating access for everyone has become a huge debate in current academia. Can we make everything open when it comes to education? This question needs to be answered in many ways. “Openness” cannot be createdContinue reading “Topic 2 – Openness in Education”

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Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by yaelta

Collaborative learning – when interaction with other’s thoughts is at its bestMy journey through ONL keeps providing lots of food for thought about many different issues. Reflecting on my own ways of learning and on how our PBL-group is evolving is an …

Topic 2: sharing and openness

Posted on April 21, 2020 by camtos

Our angle on the topic of openness was: how does it relate to equality? The main goal of open online education is accessibility, and through that accessibility, equal resources granted for all. However, access alone does not guarantee equality: not only due to literacy or to the availability of network connections, but due to the… Continue reading Topic 2: sharing and openness

Topic 1: online participation and digital literacies

Posted on April 21, 2020 by camtos

It’s quite appropriate that the first topic that we face is focused on online participation, because the main challenge of the first week is exactly to understand one’s own degree and mode of participation. In my case, I was quite unable to follow the many platforms on which we were expected to communicate, which led… Continue reading Topic 1: online participation and digital literacies

Sharing and Openness in education – some thoughts

Posted on April 20, 2020 by emolsson

With new media and technology, the possibility to increase our capacity as educators to be open and generous about the knowledge has never been bigger. Openness has so far often referred to sharing teaching material like textbook, courseware offline. However, with the technology at use today we can more effectively reuse, redistribute, revise and remixContinue reading “Sharing and Openness in education – some thoughts”

Availability Problem

Posted on April 20, 2020 by mehrdad

One of the issues in the move towards online education and use of digital platforms for teaching is with respect to the availability of the teachers. This is something that I have personally heard from different teachers that although digital education tools and platforms provide so many benefits, but on the flip side, they may … Continue reading Availability Problem →

My Precious – Universities and Open Learning

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Jörg Schminder

At a first glance universal access to education was for centuries limited for privileged people such as the nobleman, rich or religious representatives. Today the situation might look somehow better because theoretically everybody has the right to visit a school or university. Theoretically! Different reports show that there is still a gap to fill sinceContinue reading “My Precious – Universities and Open 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).”

Reflections on Topic 1

Posted on April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by Jesper Augustsson

Hi all,So the Friday 13 March David White webseminar was great I think.The hierarchy system (the normal academic system) in which in which students are ranked by an authority (me as teacher) vs the network system in which students collaborate, connect …