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Virtual poster exhibition

Posted on by petert

Started one of my courses today – Product visualization. A course where students learn to use visualization to communicate complex information. Before COVID-19 and when the lecture was on campus the first lecture was basically presenting the structure …

Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness

Posted on by Jukka Välimäki

Openness in education means open resources, open tools and open participation courses. It’s about sharing materials, collaboration and allowing learning. Openness requires trust. For example, I can share my materials with a Creative Commons license that requires giving appropriate credit to the licensor, but I have to trust that others know and respect the license.Continue reading “Topic 2: Leap of trust into the Openness”

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Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on by Jess

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay My teaching career began in a time when computers were first starting to be implemented in schools. There were computer labs where you could book in and students would work on very simple tasks that integrated technology. In late 2008, Australia’s then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched the Digital … Continue reading Topic 1 – Online participation and digital literacies

Sesame, open!

Posted on by mimsho

Who doesn´ t want openness – openness and transparency and sharing and collaboration! Of course, most of us do, and in education as well. There isn´ t much to be said against sharing and discussing. Last week, I was looking for evidence-based papers on open education resources, in particular in the medical education sector. IContinue reading “Sesame, open!”

Privacy concerns in different countries and their impact on online learning

Posted on by Thomas Fischer

The internet has been hailed as a democratic tool that opens services and content to individuals all over the world. In fact, most of the content in the internet is free. We can watch videos on Youtube, listen to music on Spotify, communicate via Skype, have access to a detailed lexicon on Wikipedia, and soContinue reading “Privacy concerns in different countries and their impact on online learning”

Topic 2

Posted on by fridabender

In these past couple of weeks the work in our PBL group has been focused on the advantages and disadvantages of open learning. In trying to think what openness means for my own practice, as teacher and learner, I realize that a) although I have taken steps in the direction of openness, my experience soContinue reading “Topic 2”