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What is openness?

What is it to me? To you? Can it help save the world? There are a lot of reasons being open, and there are a lot of reasons why you shouln’t be to open. But for me, opening up more have given me GREAT possibilities to learn, to join and create communities, and to build […]

Digital Literacy

The first topic in ONL course is about the digital world. I found a good definition to Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster who defined it as “the ability to both understand and use digitised information” (1997). This can be considered as an old definition but think how valid it still is. I started to think […]

Digital Literacy

The first topic in ONL course is about the digital world. I found a good definition to Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster who defined it as “the ability to both understand and use digitised information” (1997). This can be considered as an old definition but think how valid it still is. I started to think […]

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Connecting week

Greetings from Finland! The first connecting weeks have been really interesting but also overwhelming in many ways. It´s cool to start this Problem Based Learning journey ? My background is within business and tourism, have been teaching already quite a while and currently working as a Program Director for International Business program. My areas of […]

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Connecting week

Greetings from Finland! The first connecting weeks have been really interesting but also overwhelming in many ways. It´s cool to start this Problem Based Learning journey ? My background is within business and tourism, have been teaching already quite a while and currently working as a Program Director for International Business program. My areas of […]

Week 1 – Connecting — Open Learning by Ares

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. […] […]

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Digital literacies

This topic has been interesting and I can relate to it as I have had a similar topic for my first-year students. We have during that topic looked at the student’s digital literacy as well as their digital footprint. When listening to the Webinar with David White I started thinking about the age implication. I […]