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Why am I writing this?

-The Ultimate Question of Life, The University, and Everything   Why do students deliver their awesome work? Why do scientists explore and publish? Why do people do Ironman or climb mountains? Why do people create poems, music, craft and art…

Sharing and Openness

The video about creative licences was informative (Process Arts, 2011) to sort out how to make sure that my online material won’t be used in a manner that I didn’t intend. However, I’m not so concerned about getting credit so I’d probably just the CC0 …

Learning in Communities

I recently saw a documentary “A Life on Our Planet” narrated by David Attenborough (Hughes, Scholey, & Fothergill, 2020). In it, he put forth a notion that unlike other flora and fauna, humans do not need physical change in their bodies to create changes to the world around them. Humans can do that, but humans […]

Affective collaborative learning has automatically happened?

As I was preparing for this week’s topic – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning, I came across with a quote “ “Currently, online collaborative learning tends to focus on the cognitive process by emphasizing task-oriented communication, while assuming that the social dimension will occur automatically via communicative technologies (Kreijns et al., 2003). However, …

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Open, Sesame!

The topic for this reflective text is Opennes in Education. I have thoroughly pondered upon it over the last two weeks. I started by examining the content of the word ‘open’ looking at how it is used in various idiomatic expressions. I found that many had a positive ring to them and nice images poppedFortsätt läsa “Open, Sesame!”

Open Education & Open Pedagogy – where to start?

Of course being ‘open’ entails the idea of sharing and where would we be without sharing? Something I read or heard recently (sorry, can’t remember where) talked about how Wikipedia can only exist because individuals are prepared to share. No private (or even public) enterprise could ever create such an all encompassing ocean of content.Fortsätt läsa “Open Education & Open Pedagogy – where to start?”