Although I’ve blogged for many years, I created this space at the beginning of my PhD journey, over 3 years ago. As I re-read my first post to this blog, I am amazed at how quickly the time has passed, and I honestly can’t quite believe tha…
Learning in communities – networked and collaborative (#HP621A)
Suggested themes for reflection in your learning blog: 3a) An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward I love the concept of MOOC, but the ONL brought in PBL-groups where the participants got agency and took shared responsibility. I started to study Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) [Koschmann]. “CSCL locates… Read more »
VKF konferens 2019 i Göteborg
Today, I am participating at the VKF konferens in Gothenburg. I will present our course development projects and talk about how and why we run open online courses. Below you can find my slides.
Another exciting online learning experience – the Twitter Conference
Experimenting with different online learning opportunities which take advantage of the affordances of openly networked online social technologies underpins my approach to learning and teaching. Just as I encourage participants in the subjects that I te…
Open learning, sharing and openness (#HP621A)
Suggested themes for reflection in your learning blog: 2a) What openness means for your own practice 2b) How to find and use openly licensed resources I have used WikiEducator and Wikiskola for OER, but are also experimenting with H5P and DS106bank to create an ecology for sharing 2c) Advantages and disadvantages of open and closed… Read more »
Online Participation and Digital Literacies (#HP621A)
Suggested themes for reflection on module 1: a) Who you are as an individual in the digital age and what characterizes your journey so far? (You may think about your own digital literacy and identity in your personal and professional life, how are they linked? b) What this course might mean for your development? (Your… Read more »
Collaborative Learning in Digital Learning Environments (#HP621A)
We have now been divided into groups to start the course with an introduction and activate the first module in Canvas LMS. The introduction is shared as a page: Module 1 – Collaborative Learning 1 “During this module we will together explore important literacies to survive and thrive in the digital age, as well as… Read more »
Tips for teaching as a PhD student
Today, me and my colleague Carolina Camén are invited by our Graduate student association to give some tips on teaching as a PhD student. Rather difficult task to summarize our experiences in 30 minutes. Here I put some slides together, mainly as resource links for everyone interested. “The Apprentice” by -{GP}- is licensed under CC […]
Out with the old: Using a Twitterchat as a formal learning strategy
This semester I am teaching LCN600 Connected Learning, as part of the Master of Education course at Queensland University of Technology. This course explores online connected and networked learning. Students are first challenged to map and analyse a co…
Back to basics for sustainability – presentation at #OER19
Having participated at #OER16 and #OER17 as a “lurker”, I am super excited to having the opportunity to present at #OER19, one of my favorite pedagogical conferences. I will challenge myself to summarize 6 years of leading several externally financed course development projects at Karlstad University, in which we developed a dozen or so open […]
Copyright, Creativity and Change
Markus Spiske Setting the scene A number of recent events have led to this post. The first was the publication of a terrific blog post by Elizabeth Hutchinson who wrote about Why copyright ‘For educational purposes’ is becoming a real probl…
Creating a digital learning environment for #ONL191
Since December 2018, I am part of the organizing committee for the Open Networked Learning course. I have been following this course for a while and started this very blog for its predecessor FDOL. In the coming posts I will try to document who we built the course homepage, which builts on a self-hosted WordPress […]
The Christchurch, NZ Killing and Social Media
The recent Christchurch killings was deliberately designed to use social media to demonstrate that no place is safe from ideological supremacists and their plans.The name Christchurch and the target of a mosque – From things read it seems that the…
Creative Commons Certificate course final project
In my final project for the Creative Commons Certificate course I will describe how I can best advocate for open values, practices and resources within institution and context. I will also highlight my key learnings from the course and try to offer some advice from my perspective. Finally, I will highlight a couple of challenges […]
The Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers- a critical stakeholder for the proliferation of OEPs in Sweden
In the following text I will argue how the Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers (the teachers’ union in the contex of higher education in Sweden) is a critical stakeholder for the proliferation of OEPs in Sweden. By doing so, I will explain the primary context in which I am interested in Creative Commons, […]