From constructivist to connectivist teaching and learning

I have never believed in a purely ‘instructivist’ model of higher education for my courses, whereby the role of the teacher is only to ‘transfer knowledge down’ to the students (Crosslin, 2016). Instead, I largely subscribe to a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Among other things, this means that I conceive of my roleContinue reading “From constructivist to connectivist teaching and learning”

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

I had a very narrow understanding of what it meant to “be open” as an educator before embarking on this course. I didn’t view openness as a spectrum but rather two stark choices, either you were open (and I simply equated this with offering one’s course at a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) level) or […]

Is it possible to go or be open in online education?

Openness and sharing are two important factors for online education and the first question that always should be the addressed is the “why” question. Why shall we go online? Why shall we be open and share? With this a starting point there are several aspects to reflect upon. Since I don’t have an academic/teaching background […]

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Sharing and Openness in Education

There is no doubt that the Internet has revolutionized our daily life. It has been the main medium of everyday communication that is used for different activities ranging from sharing a moment with a friend, ordering food, shopping clothes to even education and learning. In fact, the Internet can be seen as a sophisticated multidisciplinary […]

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Topic 2: Open Education

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR
Open education is key in providing accessibility to learning. There are many online tools and local oportunities to s…