I have had some time to reflect and these are my thoughts:
Openness is so important. Since I am a scientist at heart, I share this article about Open Source Science. It was so encouraging and led me to the Open Source Pharma and Open Source Malaria projects. Both are free to participate in and the Open Source Pharma has a very simple description of Artifical Intelligence, BlockChain, Open Source Medicine and also freely available software designed to enhance Open Source Medicine Practice. Below is a schematic of this Open Approach:
There are simply so many online courses that allow for self-chosen and self-paced learning. This course has taught me a little about all of this. My wife and I attended an online webinar which was static with no live video and sharing of documents using tools like Google Drive and Google Docs which our ONL group did.
Learning where you’re taught a lesson and then given a test is artificial. In life, one is often given a test that teaches you a lesson as Tom Bodett, an American author, said. I think Online and Networked Learning allows this to happen.
Flexibility, openness, collaboration and transparentness and the easy learning of tools by collaboration have been the most important lessons learnt by me.