Four open practices of OER use into curriculum

Topic 2 – To MOOC or not to MOOC

Integrating MOOCS in traditionally taught courses The first acquaintance I had with open and online educational resources (OER) dates back years ago in the form of a MOOC. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses (Bralic & Divjak, 2018). MOOCs are online courses open to all who have access to an internet connection and are […]

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Topic 3: Learning in Communities – Thoughts on Effective Collaborative Learning

Learning in modern digitalized world depends not only on obtaining knowledge personally from non-digital (e.g, non-digital books) and digital sources (e.g., internet), but also on applying the knowledge that is acquired from other individuals and groups by means of collaboration. In this way, knowledge is created within the groups by means of collaboration and isContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in Communities – Thoughts on Effective Collaborative Learning”

Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?

Dear Reader, Our third topic on our ONL-course was Learning in Communities – networked collaborative learning. In other words, this topic is also the embodiment of our work in action during this course. While investigating this topic, I have thus also spent a lot of time navel-gazing and trying to observe our working methods fromContinue reading “Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?”

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Blog 3: Topic 3

Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning Here I want to comment on two things that I definitely see as advantages of networked collaborative learning if used wisely. Both have to do with research. I have seen many scholars form relatively static groups with potentially many people inside the group but little interaction between thoseFortsätt läsa “Blog 3: Topic 3”

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Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes

First, let’s talk about some risks of openness…. Leraning by doing is a good approach, as they say. However, sometimes, this involves making mistakes along the way. When it comes to issues like using open resources, some caution should be taken. I learned this through my research project once, in a not-so-nice way: During theFortsätt läsa “Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes”