I am currently working at the Department for Commissioned Education at Lund University. This department differs quite a lot from other departments at the university, with the main goal of Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) being to sell education to professionals. Do Massive Open Online Courses go well with commissioned education? Open Online Courses are … Continue reading What open courses means to commissioned education →

David Wiley suggested that there is a huge demand for higher education – a demand which perhaps cannot be met by traditional campus courses for the simple reason that it would require the build-up of an educational infrastructure on such a large scale that it might be impossible. This raises the question of whether it … Fortsätt läsa Open education or education for the (even) few(er)?

In the article “Digital Resilience in Higher Education” Weller and Anderson argues that the higher education will change substantially in the future due to digital revolution [1]. A key factor in the change Weller and Anderson see is the development and sharing of open education resources in teaching. The enabling factor behind this sharing of … Continue reading Who will pay for the content? →

The computer. My biggest friend, and my biggest enemy, a source of daily bread and a source of daily conflict. The digital world has impacted my life, my family, our home in a very strong way and this impact will only increase! Almost everybody I know who has children fights nowadays against computer addiction, mostly … Continue reading Me, my son and the digital world →

There are different ways of using the online tools when it comes to education, and one of this weeks questions concerns if a MOOC is the way to move forward. In this sense for me movining forward means letting the LMS go and work more openly. Is see MOOCs as a big opportunity, but at … Fortsätt läsa Is knowledge essential?

My reflections after the first two weeks and the topic “Online participation & digital literacies” I hope I under this course can widening my comfort zone and try things I never done before. I want to have more tools in my toolbox. It feels good to evaluate tools in the “safe” PBL group environment. It … Fortsätt läsa Sunday evenings reflections

I have a dream about a sustainable future and that dream is actually related to this course. How? By giving me the means through which I hope to connect with people around the globe who are interested in learning and teaching for a sustainable future. However, I have always considered myself as digitally illiterate – … Fortsätt läsa I have a dream

Hi all,   We have now been working for some time together in the group. It feels a lot better now compared to when we started the course. The reason for this is that I now feel more acquainted with the different digital tools that we are using for the course and I now can … Fortsätt läsa Some thoughts on digital literacies

So, time for the next blog post…..and what shall I discuss? It is still a new concept to me to use a blog for capsulizing my learnings. One part of it is who are my readers and what might they be interested in? But this pretty much goes for all of us who are digital … Fortsätt läsa The quest for digital literacy

The use of internet and information and communication technology makes it possible to facilitate learning for more groups of people than the groups that traditionally have had the momentum and possibility to attend higher education. There are also several initiatives that in one way or another try to open up learning for new groups of … Continue reading Who is learning? →

We have now had our first week ”Connecting”, and has started Topic 1:“Online participation & digital literacies”. It is indeed a fascinating journey we´ve embarked. I´ve really enjoyed the first weeks of “connecting” with my PBL group 3, with members from Germany, Finland, Sweden and South Africa, and at least partly, Scotland. I reluctantly volunteered to … Continue reading Wish I had tons of time! →

Listening to the google hangout I hear a lot of frustration about where to find things- and I recognize this in myself. I want a list of where to find things. I do not want to have to look in a million places and then still be scared that I have missed something. I also … Fortsätt läsa Still extremely confused on a very low level of digital literacy

As a teacher it is pretty needy to every now and then make a swap of roles and become a learner instead. This has become very obvious since the ONL 181 commenced. And of most importance is that one gets some insights in to how it is to work with people you’ve never met, and … Fortsätt läsa The learner – a renewed state of mind.

 Hi, My name is Ida. I am a Millennial (born between 1981-2000) and I am addicted to digital technology (Ng, et al. 2010). I am currently having nine (9) conversations on Facebook, ten (10) conversations on WhatsApp, and five (5) conversations on Instagram DM. I am having conversations in Australia, Uruguay, France, Sweden, Germany and … Continue reading A Millennials digital confessions →