The next iteration of Open Networked Learning, ONL171, starts very soon, 13 February. There is still time for open learners to register (register as an open learner). If you work at one of the organising institutions please check your institution’s own registration form: Karolinska Institute, Lund University, Linnaeus University and Independent Institute of Education. More information […]

Dear ONLers, We hope this final post finds you all well! Before moving into holiday season mode, we want to thank you for fantastic engagement in the course, for generous sharing and for laughs and kindness along the way! It’s been ten intense weeks and we know that for most participants, this course is simply […]

We hope you have found what you were searching for when you signed up for this course and that you will carry with you some of  what you have accomplished into your future work. We also sincerely hope that you have had good fun on the way! The previous two weeks were all about the […]

For this topic we turn our point-of-view from participating in a learning environment into the processes of designing for learning. Learning design is a process that involves analyzing the learner, defining learning outcomes, creating learning activities, determining appropriate assessment methods, testing/implementing the design, and evaluating it. This topic’s premium feature is a scenario where you […]

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 […]

Now we start the second week of Topic 2 on opening up education. We hope you are enjoying investigating this fascinating and rapidly developing field and have found time to sample the recommended reading and viewing as a stimulus to your group work. If you haven’t already done so have a look at the Padlet […]

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, In this final week of topic 1 “Connecting – online participation and digital literacies” we have already seen some very interesting reflections in the participants’ blogs! The start of the ONL course seem to have been somewhat confusing (which might not be at all bad) and at the same time enjoyable with connecting […]

Dear friends, We are now starting the second week of the course and we have exceeded 100 members the ONL community, we have never been so many before. It has been fantastic to see all activity during the first week with introductions and commenting and further that blogging seems to be off to an unusually […]

Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL162 and there is already lots of activity in the G+ communities and on twitter! There are almost 80 registered participants (in 11 PBL groups) and there are even more members in the course common ONL162 G+ community where all facilitators and […]

Dear colleagues, We are excited to welcome you to next iteration of the ONL course! Next Monday, September 26th the course will officially start, please find an overview here. The spaces where most of the activity will take place are the different Google+ communities; the main ONL162 community for all learners opens today for you […]