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I have started rowing…

Posted on by Agata Miszczak-Leda

Sharing and openness is with no doubt obvious feature of open learning. However for many of us it seems really difficult to come to terms with this fact. During our PBL group meetings and discussions some of us(including me ) expressed their fears connected especially with the issue of “sharing”. Working for different institutions we […]

Open Learning – Sharing & Openness

Posted on by Melissa May

When the discussion around what “open” really means in an educational context, I found myself constantly renegotiating (and admittedly grappling) with my own understanding of it. Open education and Open Educational Resources (OER) to me have always (sort of) been synonymous with “free”. Right? In South Africa (SA), the concept of Open Access was only […]

Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on by Melissa May

This is young Melissa in her happy place – in front of the fire with the family dog, Karl. Being an 80s kid, my sister and I didn’t grow up with computers or the internet. Research for school assignments meant going to the library, finding a book, booking it out for a little while and […]

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Topic 1

Posted on by Ares Gomez

Online Participation and Digital Literacies. Week 3 done already… I am still lost but somehow (mainly with the great help of my colleagues) topic 1 is done! In this topic, we discussed about the GillySalmon model and the COI-Model. I knew already the GillySalmon model but the COI-Model was new to me. Here is how […]

Week 1 – Connecting — Open Learning by Ares

Posted on by Ares Gomez

The beginning… This week we start with this course on Open Network Learning and I am already lost. In general, I feel confident using online tool, but blogging has always been out of my comfort zone. I started by creating my blogg page (https://openlearningbyares.wordpress.com), that was easy enough. But then, I am at a lost. […] […]

Week 1 – Connecting

Posted on by Ares Gomez

The beginning… This week we start with this course on Open Network Learning and I am already lost. In general, I feel confident using online tool, but blogging has always been out of my comfort zone. I started by creating my blogg page (https://openlearningbyares.wordpress.com), that was easy enough. But then, I am at a lost. […]

After ice breaking week

Posted on by Agata Miszczak-Leda

Participating in international project in 2022 should be really easy because our civilized world has developed so much and so quickly that using different IT tools can only accelerate the process of communication. However, athe first week of our common meetings some very basic circumstances prevented some of us from being present in person at […]

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A wrapup of ONL212

Posted on by Leena Katto

“All good things come to an end,” my dad used to say when my kids wouldn’t have wanted to leave from summer cottage or other nice places. This came to my mind when ONL212 ended. The last blog post has been waiting for its arrival for too long, but…