By first announce of finding the first cases in Northern Cyprus like other part of the world, life and education never returned back to the normal we were use to. schools immediately started to establish and active their remote education mode and Platforms. My school (EMU) very quickly provided us Microsoft team License and every […]
Inexperience is an Asset to be Exploited: Zero Budget Design and Build Practice
Students’ project: Farc102-Dept. Architecture EMU-Spring 2021 Assoc.Prof.Dr. Badiossadat Hassanpour
Students’ project- First year Second semester- Eastern Mediterranean University-Spring 2020-2021 Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Badiossadat Hassanpour Students Names: FRANCESCA AKELLO ODEKE / UGANDA LISA MUTHONI / KENYA BERFİN EK / TURKEY MARYAM ABASSI / PALESTINE FERAS MORRAR / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Course Development : post graduate core course called Interdisciplinary Workshop
THE ABSENT THING Not in the place where it is expected to be Questioning is an art that, particularly, architects and academicians should never lose. The endless questioning habit of toddlers, which is scarcely witnessed in higher education, can deploy citizens, politicians, architects, and scholars in procedures of problem solving rather than solution making. Indeed, the practice of questioning is needed to […]

Reflection on topic 3: Learning in communities
The scenario given for topic 3: Learning in communities clearly emphasizes ‘learning together’. The topic very much reminds me of a quote by Henry Ford “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”. Due to my travel I could not participate in two team meetings but I could collaborate and […]

Warm welcome to today’s webinar with Maha Bali
Warm welcome to the topic 2 webinar with Maha Bali! The webinar will be an introduction to open educational practices and aims to make us reflect on our own practices and views on openess. We start at 11.00 CEST. More information about Maha, the webinar and on how to join is available on the event […]

ONL242 Topic 2: Open learning – sharing and openness
We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]

Warm welcome to tomorrow’s webinar with David White
Warm welcome to the topic 1 webinar with David White! The webinar will be an introduction to online participation and digital literacies and aims to make us reflect on our own practices and views on technology. We start at 13.00 CEST. More information about David, the webinar and on how to join is available on […]

Finally the start of Topic 1 – Online participation & digital literacies!
Dear colleagues, We’ve seen a great start of #ONL242 with lots of activity in the common #ONL242 community space as well as in the PBL groups! It was also great to see so many of you at the connecting webinar! Plenty of participants met in breakout rooms and started to getting to know each other. […]

ONL242 Week 2: “Connecting” starts now!
Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL242 and there is already lots of activity in the ONL242 community! Also have a look at other media or posts about the course, using hashtag #ONL242 There are currently 55 registered participants who will study in 7 mixed PBL groups! In […]

ONL242 – let’s get started!
Now it’s officially time to start a new iteration of the course! A warm welcome to all the new participants and team members! We hope you all are ready for a collaborative learning journey. The first week of the course is called Getting started and that is what it is all about – getting familiar […]

#ONL242 starting soon
Very soon, we finally kick-off #ONL242 and what an iteration it will be! We got record high interest of Open Learners in the course from the Unigloh alliance as well as the EUNICE alliance. Both are part of the European Universities initiative – European Education Area (europa.eu) and we are extremely happy to integrate ONL […]