Open Education

I thought that I had been quite open with my teaching materials through my use of personal website and learning management system. In my personal website, I share what I did, e.g. projects, without sharing comprehensively about the content of projects due to confidentiality. In the learning management system set up by the university, I […]

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How do you share your resources?

He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.”  Thomas Jefferson Education is all about enlightenment – enlightening each other through sharing, collaboration and feedback. Openness is central in education. Today, we have Internet, it gives us a great … Continue reading “How do you share your resources?”

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Multilingual co-teaching is time consuming but might be worth the time…

I continue my learning experience on ‘Internationalization‘ and ‘Language policies‘ through the pedagogical course ‘YA2 International and Collaborative Environment‘ provided to the personnel of the University of Helsinki. Our group-assignment this week was to write a blog on a topic of our choice, but related to language diversity. At the University of Helsinki, the official … Continue reading Multilingual co-teaching is time consuming but might be worth the time…

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Ghost member

Now that I am not able to attend any of the synchronous meetings of my group it feels like being a ghost group member. So I started to wonder whether this ghost-like feeling extends to online education overall. From an instructor perspective there is a long-standing discussion on how an online instructor comes across, as […]