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ONL 192 – Topic 2: On Openness & Sharing

Posted on October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 by Bianca Prang

What does openness mean for me personally and for my professional practice? Certainly, I share ideas/thoughts regularly with colleagues and friends. This usually happens in meetings or spontaneously, when getting somewhere together, and mostly in a pe…

Openness is winning … but must be safeguarded

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Stefan Schuppisser

Topic 2 in the ONL course focuses on „Open learning – Sharing and Openness“. Before diving into the topic in my thinking the terms „learning“ and „openness“ already were linked together. My starting point regarding learning, openness and sharing Learning requires openness. Unless I am open-minded and acknowledge that the current state of my being […]

Topic 2 – Openness and sharing in higher education

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Anna-Karin Welmer

What does openness mean to me? Concerning research, openness is important to reach as many readers as possible. It may however sometimes be challenging considering costs for open access and ethical issues related to data sharing. Concerning teaching, I have so far not shared my lectures online with open access. However, this course has given […]

Between DIY edupunks and big data extraction

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Wibke Straube

I just read through a review of the book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz (2010). The title was intriguing. And her message seems to be too. She explains the revolution of open online education and how technology and social media are changing how we think of … Continue reading Between DIY edupunks and big data extraction

My thoughts on openness and pedagogy

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Stina Hellberg

The second topic in the ONL-course was about openness. Which led us to investigate Massive Open Online Courses and Open Educational Resources. At the start of this topic I started looking at the recommended literature and saw the TED-talk Open education and the future by David Wiley. He is a strong advocate for openness and … Fortsätt läsa My thoughts on openness and pedagogy

Becoming more open?

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Hanna Liisa Hakala

The suggested themes for reflection in Blog 2 encompassed very wide areas (what openness means for your own practice, how to find and use openly licensed resources, advantages and disadvantages of open and closed technologies, implications of different open course and MOOC formats in relation to your learning experience on this course) of which I […]

Open pedagogy in the ONL course

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Liv Lofthus

The topic for the last two weeks has been really interesting. Openness in education is so important both for learners and teachers. It makes education accessible for more people, and the sharing of good Open Educational Resources is a great way to do this. According to the Hewlett Foundation (https://hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/) OERs are “teaching, learning and […]

Openness?

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Christiane Schnabel

These weeks’ topic is openness. With this one, I have struggled a bit to get into it. The materials did not seem too appealing to me at first and in the webinar I had difficulties to really get involved. My initial impression was “Openness? Sure, it’s a good thing. You should be open. What is […]

Openness in education – What is it about?

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Karin Bergman

The last two weeks have been about openness in education. My first thoughts on this topic was that this is something that I don’t work a lot with, and also that I don’t really have any intention of doing so. However, when we have discussed this topic and I have read more about it I […]

Open Learning, Sharing and Openness : The Brilliant Idea of Creative Commons

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Saad Mubeen

One of the key enablers of open learning is the process of sharing and open publishing of educational content by allowing others to reuse, re-distribute, revise, remix and retain the contents [1]. The Creative Commons (CC) license [2] facilitates such sharing and open publishing while ensuring the original developer/author of the content is properly acknowledged. […]

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Siv Jönsson

Fascinating two weeks, and much learning has taken place around Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) ! The introduction to openness in education by Kay Oddone (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and Alastair Creelman (Linnaeus University, Sweden) gave me so many new insights and I needed to look up many of the … Continue reading Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness →

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Siv Jönsson