Wondeful weather

Posted on by Sergey Korotov

The weather is beautiful in our town today. Spring has come to our northern region. Nature is awakening from its winter sleep. The spring sun gives energy to live and create.

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On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 2: Supporting the development of students’ well-being skills

Posted on by Marja Elonheimo

For the second topic of the course we are thinking about students, their well-being and how to support them to develop their well-being skills. This is maybe the most familiar topic of all these three. Not in a sense that I would have the solutions and answers to all the issues this important topic raisesContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 2: Supporting the development of students’ well-being skills”

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The wicked problem to open education

Posted on by Lejla Islami

Openness alone is not a virtue to better, improved education as it apart from benefits, entails risks as well. However, if combined and negotiated with different aspects it could lead to free, easily-to-access and flexible knowledge. In my view to open education and openness in general, I would like take a different approach, not only […]

Residents and visitors in the era of digital literacy

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

After two long weeks talking and reflecting upon digital literacy and residents-visitors metaphor [1], a question comes to my mind: is there any advantage to be resident to survive in the era of digital literacy? or, is it enough to be a visitor to merely survive? The term digital literacy, coined by Paul Gilster, refers […]

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Willingness & challenges of open learning

Posted on by Chun Ping Liu

Our university National University of Singapore has offered MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses on two platforms on edX ( https://www.edx.org/school/nus) and Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/nus).  The courses are from different schools and faculties and are offered for free to all. I believe the courses were selected or have some process of approval procedure to publish on […]

BP2 – Sharing and Openness

Posted on by Augusto Cannone Falchetto

I am working in civil engineering education and research and within this field in a small area concerning highway engineering. That means road, street, materials. etc. I am highlighting this as my field of expertise is almost a niche with all the consequences associated with it, also in teaching and learning. As a teacher (and […]