Registration for the next iteration of Open Networked Learning, ONL181, is now open. The participating universities this time are: Karolinska Institute, Lund University, Linnaeus University, Stockholm University, Luleå University of Technology, Linköping University, Mälardalen University and Karlstad University (Sweden), Arcada University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University (Finland), and Independent Institute of Education (South Africa). If […]
ONL181 starts in September
Open Networked Learning is taking a break for the first half of 2018 but we will be back with ONL181, starting 17 September. We are busy making some changes to the course in response to participant feedback and we hope the new version will be even better than before. If you are interested in joining […]
ONL172 has come to an end, but the adventure continues
We hope you have enjoyed the ONL experience and have discovered new ideas, methods and tools that you can use in your own teaching and learning. We also hope you have expanded your professional network and that some of you will continue to collaborate in the future. The aim of ONL is to introduce you […]
Topic 5 – Lessons learnt and future practice
Our journey is coming to an end as we enter the final week of ONL172 (see the full description of topic 5). However you can also see this as the end of the beginning and the start of a longer journey as you find new opportunities to widen the scope of your teaching and learning. We […]
Topic 4 – second week
Dear friends, We are now entering the second week of topic 4 and we can see that you keep up good work in the PBL groups as well as sharing of interesting blog posts! During last week we had a webinar with Martha Cleveland-Innes, the recording and material from the webinar can be found on […]
Welcome to topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning
We hope that you all at this point of time in the course feel quite well-settled with the ONL learning environment and that you have found a good structure for your studies and PBL group work. It seems that the previous topic on Learning in communities was inspiring and engaged you in good discussions and […]
Second week of topic 3
Hope you enjoyed the events of last week – the webinar on Thursday and the tweetchat on Friday, both lead by Alec Couros! If, for some reason, you missed the webinar, it was recorded and is available here. Some of the questions discussed in the tweetchat were: “What are risks & benefits of participating in […]

Welcome to topic 3: Learning in communities – networked & collaborative learning
Halfway through the course, we hope you have enjoyed the ride so far and learnt a lot! Is 1+1=2 or is there more to it? The coming two weeks will be all about learning in communities, networking and collaboration. Most of us have experiences from group work, that for some reason hasn’t worked all that […]
Topic 2 week 2
We hope you are enjoying exploring the world of open education. It’s a fascinating world and far from simple, as we are sure you have already discovered. This week you are invited to take part in another ONL tweetchat. Kay Oddone and Alastair Creelman will be hosting this on Wednesday, 25 October at 12.00 CEST […]
Topic 2: Open learning – Sharing and openness
Just when you’re polishing off Topic 1 along comes Topic 2, starting on Monday 16 October! We hope you are now getting familiar with the course set-up and have enjoyed working in your PBL groups on the first topic. Now we move on to a central element in this course; the topic of openness. Education […]
Second week of topic 1 – finding one’s feet
So, we’re into the second week of topic 1 and you are probably beginning to find your feet. Sara Mörtsell’s webinar last week was attended by many and, as always, greatly appreciated – don’t forget that Sara will pop in to the main G+ community and respond to your questions now and then this week! […]
At last – proper course start: topic 1!
Dear colleagues, We’ve seen a great start of ONL172 with lots of activity in the common ONL172 community, in the PBL groups and in the blogs! We know that the first weeks of the course feel slightly overwhelming to most participants – but don’t worry, it will get a lot clearer once you start finding […]