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OPEN or NOPE

I’d like to open this reflection with the following quote: “The use of open practices by learners and educators is complex, personal, and contextual; it is also continually negotiated.” ~ Catherine Cronin I am going to be open and transparent and say that this topic led me through my first deep dive into open education. … Continue reading OPEN or NOPE

Topic 4: design for online and blended learning

The forth topic started with an inspiring seminar with Martin Weller. He shared his long experience of making online courses at Institute of Educational Technology at the UK Open University. He talked about different aspects of course design and shared tips and tools for how to get the learning process active. The UK Open UniversitiesFortsätt läsa “Topic 4: design for online and blended learning”

Topic 5 Lessons learnt – Future practise

ONL has changed my perspective of learning and teaching, if you looked at Elmore’s modes of learning framework and his four quadrants – Individual, Collective, Hierarchical and Distribute. Try to combine them and your alternatives as a teacher are endless (but follow the syllabus). My experience of organizations/employers are that if you want to implementFortsätt läsa “Topic 5 Lessons learnt – Future practise”

Networked collaborative learning

During topic 3 we were reflecting on how we can make students learning improve using group work and collaboration assignment. I have to say that “my” group is reallt creative and during the first meetings we came up with a lot of different ideas and angels on the topic. To try and struvture the contributions […]

Openness – or should we just call it the internet economy 

My first impression about the concept of Open Education was that of bewilderment. In our webinars and PBL group discussion it felt like we were discussing well known, general principles of how the internet economy works – but we were pretending like we were discussing something more fancy.  I then went on to read MartinContinue reading “Openness – or should we just call it the internet economy “

Topic 5

Learning experience in this course has been kind of an interesting lesson in itself. Looking at the four modes of learning as expressed by Professor Richard Elmore, I think I expected the course to be like so many others, on an hierarchical individual level. But to my surprise, looking back, I think I have mentally […]