Today, I am at the Lifelong Learning Summit in Lillehammar organized by the International Counicl for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) and the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN University). Very shortly, I will present the Idea management course, a hybrid mooc developed for business professionals about the initial phase of the idea management process. […]

For the last 4 years, I am the course convener for the course Marketing Strategies at Karlstad Business School. During the entire 15 ECTS (10 weeks, full-time) course, the students are working in small teams. They take on the role as marketing consultants and work together with and for a local company to analyse its’ marketing […]

Today, I will be attending the inaugural COER International Research Symposium at the Center for open education research at the University of Oldenburg. This is a particularly interesting event for me. Partially, due to my interest in open education. I have been codesigning and codeveloping open courses such as Understanding Customer Experience, Idea management and Servitization, […]

During last week’s pedagogical conference at Karlstad University, I had the pleasure to listen to the keynote by Hülya Basaran. Hülya held a very inspirational speech about her immigrant background, being different, braking norms and following one’s dreams. I’m always glad, when I see a presenter in Sweden having a creative commons license on the […]

Today, I am attending the pedagogical conference at Karlstad University. This year’s topic is about gender integration in teaching. During the morning we will listen to a couple of presenations on how colleagues have worked with gender and gender equality questions in their respective programs. Camilla Berglund, Maria Jansdotter Samuelsson, Nina Thelander in teacher education, Ann Bergman and […]

Finally it is done. For years I wanted to make an update to my old and rusty blog/homepage. It was running on Joomla, as I had worked with the CMS for some time, running the AFL Sweden homepage and in some other projects. For the last years, however, I’ve been working more with WordPress. I […]

In 10 days, we will start the second run of our open networked learning course “Understanding Customer Experience”. We got a new homepage and I’m testing all new functions and gimmicks. Stay tuned for more info. Ah, btw. If you want t…

What a rollercoaster ride the first two days of our new open course have been. After a fantastic start yesterday, with a lot of new registrations and the first participants connecting their blogs to the course homepage, the unthinkable happened this afternoon. A digging accident in the east of Sweden damaged two major fiberinternet cables, resulting in unaccessibility of […]

After a good year of planning, I finally kicked-off my first cMOOC today. Almost one and a half years ago, I started this blog as a participant in FDOL. Today, already on the first day of the course, I have participants from Sweden and around the world connecting their blogs to our course homepage. This is such a great reward for […]

Unit two of the open flexible online course (FDOL) that I currently engage in, is about digital literacy. “Digital literacy?” you might ask yourself. Yes! Digital literacy – a term, which was new to me until a few weeks back. A term, which covers a broad range of things on the digital self and practice and which […]

This is the first post on my new blog and is part of a learning experience in the open online course FDOL, which I am currently participating in. This short post is about the digital me. My digital journey began in the early days of the world wide web with a short internship in the […]