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To become digitally literate is more difficult for people who didn’t grow up with digital gadgets

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Jonna Vocke

For me there is a long way to go to become digitally literate. It’s probably not even possible when listening to David White’s Youtube clip “Visitors and Residents” where he is citing Mark Prensky’s theory saying “If you are young enough to have grown up with digital technology – you are native to it”. I […]

The wicked problem to open education

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Lejla Islami

Openness alone is not a virtue to better, improved education as it apart from benefits, entails risks as well. However, if combined and negotiated with different aspects it could lead to free, easily-to-access and flexible knowledge. In my view to open education and openness in general, I would like take a different approach, not only […]

Residents and visitors in the era of digital literacy

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Luciana Provenzano

After two long weeks talking and reflecting upon digital literacy and residents-visitors metaphor [1], a question comes to my mind: is there any advantage to be resident to survive in the era of digital literacy? or, is it enough to be a visitor to merely survive? The term digital literacy, coined by Paul Gilster, refers […]

Willingness & challenges of open learning

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Chun Ping Liu

Our university National University of Singapore has offered MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses on two platforms on edX ( https://www.edx.org/school/nus) and Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/nus). The courses are from different schools and faculties and are offered for free to all. I believe the courses were selected or have some process of approval procedure to publish on […]

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Posted on April 10, 2022 by Anja Schmidt-Christensen

Openness and sharing in my own practice. Should I worry about ‘giving away’ my intellectual property? I love lecturing. I never thought I would say that, as it has been a long sometimes frustrating journey. Maybe some of you c…

BP2 – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Augusto Cannone Falchetto

I am working in civil engineering education and research and within this field in a small area concerning highway engineering. That means road, street, materials. etc. I am highlighting this as my field of expertise is almost a niche with all the consequences associated with it, also in teaching and learning. As a teacher (and […]

Reimagining Openness-A Case Study

Posted on April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 by Nina Venkataraman

Let us reimagine openness: Case study-The women of Kookal Before my present adventure as a Lecturer at National University of Singapore, I lived for five years in a small hamlet nestled…

Topic 2 Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Susanna Fabricius

Openness is a noble word. This topic is indeed very actual not least due to the two years Covid-19 isolation. This is a very complex topic, we seem to relate to it through our own (cultural background) lenses. What are the motivators of being open? What about the quality of open education? These are matters […]

Open Learning – Sharing & Openness

Posted on April 8, 2022 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 […]

Open Learning – Sharing, what does “open” actually mean?

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Susanne Quintes

Over the last two weeks we’ve worked on open education and the whole concept of openness. At times I’ve felt the more we talked about it, the more difficult it became to define what open education actually means. Maha Bali’s webinar actually really opened my eyes to the social justice point, the global issues when […]

Filter-bubbles and academics trying to make their voices heard

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Johan Högman

Reflecting on the purpose of making an effort to open up education I came to think about another important aspect. Today more than ever, the quality of information and knowledge is key to a functional democratic society. Online there is an abundance of information. Information that has been created for various reasons. Lobbyists, political groups, […]