Now, it has been sometime since my last post. However, I have been thinking a lot about it, just could not find time to sit down and do the actual writing. And here is an interesting reflection on (my)self – I actually look forward to the writing, and it has become a way of relaxing … Continue reading Reflections on Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness →

I have been relating this topic to my recent involvement with an online course, which I am developing myself, it’s a very short course based on 4 weeks, one meeting per week and asynchronous work on facebook and whatsapp. While designing the course th…

ONL gave me an opportunity to learn quite a lot of stuff. In the beginning it was bit hard to go around the new website, but it was god that we had first week to know how things worked. The best thing I found was strong facilitation that got us togeth…

Background Information. Primarily I am, by profession, an electronic engineer and am not an educationist but yet I am intricately involved in education. That is, I have not specifically studied a bachelors degree in education but have been educating electrical engineering students over the past three decades (1988 to date). What I have studied is … Continue reading Reflections on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning →

Photo by Jean-Guy Nakars on Unsplash While reflecting on openness in education I came to think of panopticon, a special type of prison building that is used as a metaphor for disciplinary mechanisms ruling modern society. Due to its circular structure with an inspection tower in the middle the prisoners permanently feel themselves being observed. … Continue reading Breaking out of Panopticon