Welcome to topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning We hope you are now comfortably immersed in the ONL learning environment and have established a productive rhythm for your studies and PBL group activities. The recent topic on Learning in Communities appears to have sparked engaging discussions and deep reflections on collaborative and […]

Networked collaborative learning Welcome to topic 3, about learning in communities. Hopefully, you have had a great reflection week. The next topic is networked collaborative learning: how can we engage our students in an online and blended learning environment? We’re excited to welcome Hróbjartur Árnason, who reminds us that learning is not just about absorbing […]

Dear ONLers, We hope you enjoyed your weekend! For this week, there are no planned course common activities – however it is perfectly OK to decide for yourselves if you want to meet to reflect as a group! At this point things may have piled up on your to-do list and we want you to […]

Hello, everyone! I am Eunice Kombe, a prosthetist and orthotist as well as a lecturer at KCMC University in Moshi, Tanzania. My work revolves around improving mobility and quality of life for individuals in need of prosthetic and orthotic care. Beyond clinical practice and teaching, I am deeply involved in research and innovation in rehabilitation […]

In the digital age, I am both a professional and an individual navigating a rapidly evolving digital and learning landscape. I leverage digital tools for research, networking, and advocacy in prosthetics and orthotics, ensuring that technology enhances access to rehabilitative care. At the same time, I maintain a personal digital identity where I interact with […]

To acquire digital literacy and to engage online, there is the basic assumption that the learner owns or at least has access to a computer to start with, right? Then, let’s check how many people have or own a computer (desktop, laptop, tablet, etc.). Figures vary by regions and countries and quality but this map […]

We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]

Warm welcome to the topic 1 webinar with David White! The webinar will be an introduction to online participation and digital literacies and aims to make us reflect on our own practices and views on technology. We start at 15.00 CET. More information about David, the webinar and on how to join is available on […]

Dear colleagues, We’ve seen a great start of #ONL251 with lots of activity in the common #ONL251 community space as well as in the PBL groups! It was also great to see so many of you at the connecting webinar! Plenty of participants met in breakout rooms and started to getting to know each other. […]

Dear colleagues, Finally we have set off for the exciting learning journey of ONL251 and there is already a good deal of activity in the ONL251 community! There are currently 40 registered participants who will study in 5 mixed PBL groups! In the course common ONL251 community there are also all facilitators and a few […]

Now it’s officially time to start a new iteration of the course! A warm welcome to all the new participants and team members! We hope you all are ready for a collaborative learning journey. The first week of the course is called Getting started and that is what it is all about – getting familiar […]

Very soon, we will kick-off #ONL251 and what an iteration it will be! We will welcome many Open Learners in the course from the Unigloh alliance as well as the EUNICE alliance. Both are part of the European Universities initiative – European Education Area (europa.eu). We will also extend our collaborations with partner universities from […]