In times of Covid-19, openness and sharing are important! So, why not apply this to the Topic 2 “Open Learning …
A course, a community, an approach
In times of Covid-19, openness and sharing are important! So, why not apply this to the Topic 2 “Open Learning …
For online teaching and collaborative work, these are great times. Many of our colleagues and institutions are sharing their work, and helping each other in this stressful situation. Sharing is caring and the essence of what teaching is. Unfortunately, many…
Have you ever thought about taking an online course? What about teaching one? Nowadays education has expanded beyond books and classroom walls as digital learning is establishing all over the planet in the form of open universities or online courses, s…
During my bachelors studies, around 2007, I remember I asked one of my senior’s for getting invitation to Gmail for sending e-Mails to apply for a job. I think, that is the first step to enter to digital space. That was something exciting to encounter with a new technology. As I gained access to internetContinue reading “Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies”
We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]
Have you ever experienced a culture shock? Being in a new environment and having a feeling disorientation, having hard time in finding your own comfortable role in the new society or situation? The notion of ‘culture shock’ came in into my mind after familiarizing myself with David S. White’s idea of people as ‘Visitors’ andContinue reading “Web as a place & a digital culture shock”
A worried student was the protagonist of the first topic scenario in the online connected learning course I am taking. Were I myself worried? Unsure? Uncomfortable? And was it because of the technology? Or because of working with people I have never met? And not only working, but also having to collaborate and produce aContinue reading “Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power”
We’re approaching the end the first ONL topic “Online participation & digital literacies” and it’s time to reflect. Let me start with a general note: taking an online course in order to learn about how to effectively teach online is as topical as it can gets in these “corona” times. This pandemic is showing howContinue reading “Am I a resident or visitor?”
For me and I think many other participants of the course a lot happened this week.Last week everything was nearly normal and now I am doing home-office and I’m only leaving my apartment to by groceries.Everything important is now transferred to the web. Work, hobbies, friends and family. Everything is digital these days while the … Continue reading Digital literacies in the Corona-Pandemic
This is the third week from the Open Networked Learning course and my first blog post with learning reflections. So I would like to start addressing my reflections on the ONL and my experiences from it so far. Experiences from ONL As part of the connecting week I was assigned to the PBL Group 9,… Continue reading Reflections on topic 1: experiences from ONL and my digital identity
Hi there! Today, we had the first Tweetchat of #ONL201 with David White on the topic of digital literacies and online participation. The event was a great success with plenty of participants and more than 200 tweets fired away in just one hour! There were many great, small conversations going on, just as you wish […]
Disclaimer: this should not be read by anyone. So I am taking this online course on Digital Literacies and Online Participation and today I attended a tweetchat following the hashtag #ONL201. This is my first blog post and I had been putting it off for a number of reasons, which are listed below: 1) bloggingContinue reading “Language and violence”