About me and this blog

About me Hello, my name is Diego.I am from Brazil and works at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University). I am not a teacher, but I work directly with education through administrative work. I am also a lawyer and curious about all kinds of knowledge that can help in my personal development.Therefore, education is very […]

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Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Open networked learning course had kicked off, and it has already introduced me to new concepts like native digitals and immigrant digitals as two distinct groups within digital literacy. But wait! Like any other concept we use in social sciences, digital literacy, which is often defined as “those capabilities which fit an individual for living, […]

Getting Started

I’m excited to start this journey with Open Network Learning 192. Meeting my team – PBL 192 01 and networking with different countries was amazing. I look forward to getting started.

Getting Started

I’m excited to start this journey with Open Network Learning 192. Meeting my team – PBL 192 01 and networking with different countries was amazing. I look forward to getting started.

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About me

I received my Ph.D. degree in Political Science at the Department of Government, London School of Economics in January 2017. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Collective memory and competition over identity in a conflict zone: the case of Dersim”, explores the causes and mechanisms of ongoing competition over the nature of national identity through a case study of Dersim […]

First week of ONL course

Today, I participated in the first online webinar for the ONL course. Exciting to learn that there are course participants from across the world, with a large variety of professional backgrounds. Previous experiences of online teaching and learning in the group seem to vary greatly. Lars Uhlin talked about PBL. The core of the learning […]