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Welcome in

Posted on by Viktor

I guess everybody has some kind of idea for what “openness” means, when we talk about it in daily life. But I’m pretty sure you will get the same number of explanations as the number of people you ask.  So what does it mean and especially, what does it mean in education? And is thereFortsätt läsa “Welcome in”

On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).

Posted on by Daniel de Augustinis

As expected from its title, this paper by Wenger tells the history of a concept, including its main criticisms. Wenger promises to resort to a group of authors coming from different traditions. whom he groups together as “social theory”. These authors include French philosopher Michel Foucault, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, American social anthropologist Jean Lave,Continue reading “On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).”

An immigrant with proper knowledge of grammar

Posted on by Katarina Elevant

This blog post actually treats two topics. The first one evolves around identity and the difference between private and personal. The second topic is about digital literacy, which I compare to being fluent within a language and knowing its grammar. Anyway, it turns out the two topics are related in such a way that writing […]

One reflection on the meaning of “digital literacy” and thinking about “collaborative participation” as a way of learning

Posted on by Katarina Elevant

Finally, after several years of studying collaborative participation while applying theories on communities of practice and situated learning, I ended up as a lab rat myself. I recently joined an online course on Open Networked Learning that, putting it mildly, challenges all conventional ways of thinking about learning. After a couple of days of reflection […]