To share or not to share? is the question of the past two week(s). A question that, at first, seemed like a simple one turned out to be quite the contrary. It led to more questions. Why is openness in education important? What are the motivations to ‘go open’? What does openness even mean? WhatContinue reading “What does it take to be open? – Openness and sharing in higher education”

Open educational resources are discussed  for the topic 2.  We have 4 sessions for this topic since last week. Some questions, I keep asking myself… is it safe to share? is it okay not to share? Can my works be recognized? Copyrights? Use my own time to support this work? Is it the right ways […]

For task 2, we were supposed to work on the concepts of openness and sharing in education. I must confess that before registering for this course, I was seeing MOOCs as the bread and butter of online learning. That’s why, I might be attracted to this course in the first place. But, with the assignedContinue reading “Sharing is messy”

“To open something, it must first be closed” (Mishra (2012). I was thinking about this quote this week. Indeed, we wouldn’t be able to open something that is already open. And how poignant is this quote when we think about how closed education systems have been in the past (some would argue still very muchContinue reading “Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course: PBL group6 (Kinaz) Online Participation & Digital Literacy Promote Online Engagement After investigation and discussion (PBL group6) perceive that cultural background, tools, student and teacher roles, and how to participate are the main factors that influence the intensity of online engagement. For me, the most important factor affecting performanceContinue reading “ONL202 reflection blog”

“openness as a primary condition for the progress and protection of civilisation” Bohr 1945 I am all in for open learning. Open learning means that more people get the chance to get educated when they can and to what degree they want. However, I struggle with doing the very same thing I believe in –Continue reading “Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

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 […]

Dear reader, I have to step up my blogging. It appears no one was interested in my musings in the first entry. There was only one like which was from a colleague of mine out of pity. The only comment he gave me was “it comes across as passive aggressive”. It is painfully clear IContinue reading “Learning blog utopia or dystopia?”