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Let’s go open?

Opportunities and challenges of open online coursesAs a researcher, starting to give my first steps in online teaching, I felt the need to dig into the various types of online courses and how they work. Apparently, there are many different formats of o…

I have a dream

I am clearly in favour of a completely open education. Open access to literature, open educational resources, no tuition fees, open educational practice, open pedagogics and completely inclusive to all learners irrespective of their functional diversity or socio-economic status. Yes, I know that this is impossible, but that is my dream. I am not thatContinue reading “I have a dream”

Topic 2

In relation to this topic, when we discussed what “open” really means, I came across an article by Sören Jonsson in my local paper, “Finland celebrates 10 years of open data” (2019), that I find has a bearing also on the concept of openness in education. In the article, open data is defined as “publicContinue reading “Topic 2”

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Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Sitting with a nice glass of red wine and thinking about the past few weeks of Open Networked Learning. Many new impressions, nice new colleagues in the online sessions, many hurdles (or challenges) to solve… … but it is a fascinating journey with so many new impressions, ideas and possibilities. Topic 1: Online participation andContinue reading “Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies”