The Future of Open Education: Finding Balance and Harnessing AI for Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Openness is not the end. It is the means to the end of an equitable, inclusive, and high-quality education for all, enhanced by the power of AI The open education movement promises to break down barriers to knowledge access, fostering […]
Topic 2: The Implications of Openness
These two weeks of ONL journey brought me through an impactful, challenging and encouraging ride on open education practices in the time of generative AI use. It was impactful to dialogue with my PBL group and the larger community of educators connected through Dr Maha Bali’s talk, who shared our honest concerns and struggles with […]
Where the wind blows – Connection week
The first week on ONL241 encompassed us introducing ourselves numerous times and being in sheer awe of what educators, creators, experiment-ors, researchers and one airport engineer passionately showing us a Singaporean airport. Mind blowing stuff I tell you! With a slight existential limp, I trudge heavy footed along. As part of PBL241 group 2, we […]
Reflection on topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
This blog post will summarize my thoughts about topic two in this ONL-course; sharing and openness. I will describe my views on open education as they evolved from the group work in PBL 11. In the article by Catherine Cronin (2017), she uses the definition of open education as “resources, tools, and practices that employ […]
Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
In this post I would like to share my own thoughts and findings in the literature about and around some form of open learning. In principle, the open learning seems a rather effective format, which blends the best features of face-to-face and online le…
Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
Today I aim to reflect on open learning, which lies at the very heart of Open Networked Learning. The keyword here is open – what does open mean in terms of education? According to Catherine Cronin (2017), openness in this context refers to four aspects, namely open admission, free of charge, open educational resources (OER) … Continue reading Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
My reflections on opening the education material in a course
I reflected quite a lot on this topic, especially when thinking of the courses I teach. My main thoughts here relate to opening educational resources with other teachers and students. The idea is to help teachers get easy access to high-quality material. In the end the main goal is to reduce workload for teachers and […]
The wicked problem to open education
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 […]
To really co-create…
Do we dare to co-create our education? With collegues? With students? With other subject areas? With other partners? And why should we? Yes, I love to be open. Maybe you have gotten this by now. But why? I have given you some reasons earlier. But one of my big reason is also co-creation. I really […]
Online openness or closedness?
Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” Einstein means in whatever situation we…
Open education: seemingly widely spread as it is rarely understood
In the ONL (open-networked learning) course, when we started our discussion regarding openness, open education, and open learning, it was revealed from the beginning that people had different interpretations and understanding of open education and open…
Open education: seemingly widely spread as it is rarely understood
In the ONL (open-networked learning) course, when we started our discussion regarding openness, open education, and open learning, it was revealed from the beginning that people had different interpretations and understanding of open education and open…