Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL172 and there is already lots of activity in the ONL172 G+ community and on twitter! There are almost 120 registered participants who will study in PBL groups as well as other participants who will follow the course. In the course common […]

The next iteration of Open Networked Learning, ONL172, starts very soon, 25 September, and will continue till 1 December. Please check the course overview for the general outline. You are also welcome to follow our hashtag #ONL172 on Twitter for updates.. See course overview. Registration details. If you work at one of the organising institutions you […]

Dear friends, We are now into 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! We believe that you all know about the horrendous terrorist attack that happened in Stockholm Friday afternoon last week. We hope […]

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 […]

Hope you enjoyed the events of last week – the webinar on Wednesday and the tweetchat on Thursday, both lead by Alec Couros! Some of the questions discussed in the tweetchat were: “What are some strategies for building and maintaining an online learning network?”,  “What are risks & benefits of participating in online learning networks […]

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 […]

We hope you are enjoying your investigation of openness in education. It is a complex topic and could easily fill a whole course. If you want to dig a bit deeper into the issues involved here we can recommend that you read Martin Weller’s book The battle for open. The book is free to read online […]

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 has mostly been run in relatively closed environments like classrooms, lecture halls and learning management systems. […]

Dear colleagues, great start of ONL171; lots of activity in the common ONL171 community, in the PBL groups and in the blogs! We hope that you are getting familiarized with the learning environment and connecting with peers and facilitators. We know that the start up might feel a bit confusing, but hopefully it is becoming […]

Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL171 and there is already lots of activity in the G+ community and on twitter! There are almost 80 registered participants (in 10 PBL groups) and there are even more members in the course common ONL171G+ community where all facilitators and some […]

Just two weeks to go until this term’s issue of Open Networked Learning, ONL171, leaves the stocks! There is still room for a few more open learners – register here! If you are affiliated with one of the organising institutions please check with the organisers at your institution (look here: Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Linnaeus University, […]