Dear friends, For Scandinavians, summer is very special due to the very uneven distribution of daylight and temperature during the four seasons. This time of year, the northernmost parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland have midnight sun – and during winter there will be a period when the sun never manages to rise above the […]

In our timeline we have now reached the final week of the course. Look at our timeline! DEADLINES FOR INDIVIDUAL LEARNING BLOG  DEADLINES FOR PBL  GROUP WORK 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 […]

We hope you are all well! Now the end of the course is in sight and we hope you can keep up the good work all the way to the finishing line. The previous week was all about different aspects of openness in education and we have seen interesting and fruitful discussions going on in the groups […]

Dear colleagues, In our timeline we have reached topic 4 – Flexible and mobile learning – please see the timeline below. Please notice that Topic 4 will last for two weeks because of Easter. This topic will start with a webinar already today Monday 21st March at 10 am (CET) with Dr Martha Cleveland Innes, […]

Dear friends, We hope you are all well and that you are coming to terms with this new learning environment and feeling more and more comfortable!  Topic 2 on Digital Literacy – or as we have seen, it is rather Literacies – seems to have given you ample opportunity to reflect on and identify how […]

Dear friends, We hope this finds you well! It seems that however hard we try to pave the way for the course participants, some confusion – and with that, frustration – is inevitable. These past weeks were meant to give you opportunity to familiarize with the different learning spaces and tools and to get to […]

Dear all, The first, confusing weeks of the course safely behind us, we hope you are starting to feel at home in this new environment! Certainly blogging seems to be off to an unusually good start – with commenting and discussions as an enjoyable spin-off. By now most participants in PBL groups have been in […]

Dear friends, The first week of the course has passed and yesterday (Sunday) the Google+ community counted 82 members, most of whom have introduced themselves and started to connect to course mates. It’s so nice to get faces to names and hear some of what you are all about! We hope you have made good […]

Dear colleagues, We are excited to welcome you to the ONL course! The first topic is Connecting and Networking and it will give us all the opportunity to connect with and get to know each other and familiarize with the learning environment and tools used. Please make sure that you have worked your way through the […]

Dear ONL participants, The countdown for the ONL course start continues! On Monday, February 15th the course will start and Topic 1 – Connecting and Networking will be published with tasks and resources to get you started.  The ONL 161 Community in Google +, our main discussion forum, will also open on Monday with the […]

Dear all ONLers, The course team would like to thank you all for these past few months’ toil and moil within the perimeter of the course – and for all the generosity in sharing, the jokes, the laughs and the kindness displayed! We know this course has been basically another set of ‘to-dos’ on everyone’s […]