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Sharing and Openness in education – some thoughts

Posted on by emolsson

With new media and technology, the possibility to increase our capacity as educators to be open and generous about the knowledge has never been bigger. Openness has so far often referred to sharing teaching material like textbook, courseware offline. However, with the technology at use today we can more effectively reuse, redistribute, revise and remixContinue reading “Sharing and Openness in education – some thoughts”

Availability Problem

Posted on by mehrdad

One of the issues in the move towards online education and use of digital platforms for teaching is with respect to the availability of the teachers. This is something that I have personally heard from different teachers that although digital education tools and platforms provide so many benefits, but on the flip side, they may … Continue reading Availability Problem →

Availability Problem

Posted on by mehrdad

One of the issues in the move towards online education and use of digital platforms for teaching is with respect to the availability of the teachers. This is something that I have personally heard from different teachers that although digital education tools and platforms provide so many benefits, but on the flip side, they may … Continue reading Availability Problem →

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My Precious – Universities and Open Learning

Posted on by Jörg Schminder

At a first glance universal access to education was for centuries limited for privileged people such as the nobleman, rich or religious representatives. Today the situation might look somehow better because theoretically everybody has the right to visit a school or university. Theoretically! Different reports show that there is still a gap to fill sinceContinue reading “My Precious – Universities and Open Learning”

On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).

Posted on by Daniel de Augustinis

As expected from its title, this paper by Wenger tells the history of a concept, including its main criticisms. Wenger promises to resort to a group of authors coming from different traditions. whom he groups together as “social theory”. These authors include French philosopher Michel Foucault, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, American social anthropologist Jean Lave,Continue reading “On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).”

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Reflections on Topic 1

Posted on by Jesper Augustsson

Hi all,So the Friday 13 March David White webseminar was great I think.The hierarchy system (the normal academic system) in which in which students are ranked by an authority (me as teacher) vs the network system in which students collaborate, connect …

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ONL Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on by Nadine Karlsson

I have learnt to appreciate the approach and philosophy found in problem-based learning (PBL) as a facilitator in face-to-face problem-based learning group at the Medical School of Linköping University. The PBL philosophy is inspired by Socrate’s “maïeutic” (from the Ancient Greek μαιευτικός (maieutikós) where the purpose was that the knowledge that emerges in the exchange […]

Week 3: Reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on by emily

Many of our colleagues introduced some form of collaborative elements in their courses. They often shared their challenges during the department meetings. The common challenges are students did not do prior reading to prepare themselves adequately for the topic and are not actively participating in group discussion and assignments. Other challenges cited in the literatureContinue reading “Week 3: Reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Topic 1: Experiencing your journey from digital visitor to resident – and back again?

Posted on by Pernilla Rosell Steuer

A well-known poem by the Swedish poet Karin Boye starts with the following lines: The sated day is never first. The best day is a day of thirst. Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path – but it’s the way that is the labour’s worth. (English translation taken from : https://www.karinboye.se/verk/dikter/dikter-mcduff/in-motion.shtml, 16th April, 2020) …

Continue reading “Topic 1: Experiencing your journey from digital visitor to resident – and back again?”

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Open Learning – sharing and openness

Posted on by Carys Egan-Wyer

Openness is a slippery concept. It has different meanings for different people in different contexts. When it comes to education, openness usually refers to the extent to which knowledge is accessible. When we first started talking about sharing and openness, I immediately thought about Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs). MOOCs are online courses thatContinue reading “Open Learning – sharing and openness”