EKeller@ONL181

To open or not to open? On what side of this dilemma am I? After going through topic 2 in the ONL course, and reflecting on what openness really means to my own practice, I say I am still on the closed side. Yes, I know, boring isn't it on this day and age? I enjoyed listening to Kay Oddone and Alaistar and the discussion that took place on OERs. What has helped me the most the past weeks, however, has in fact been my fantastic PBL group! We had much fun preparing the material for the open learning topic and we all ended up spending a considerable amount of time on the task at hand.  So what does the O mean for me? From where I am right now, I would say: After looking briefly through the jungle of material available on OER, Ican say I didn't know about the 4R's framework (reuse, redistribute, revise and remix) before the course. Now I look at sources differently. Consider this picture above, for example, I made sure it was available for reuse before pla...

Jetlagged and a bit lost. Body clock is somewhere in mid-Atlantic timezone. I was in San Jose  last week for the Frontiers in Education conference (FIE2018). So here I am, trying to catch up with what happened during my offline period. In a course where online engagement is expected, I feel slightly guilty that it just has not been possible to find time to be present.  Our PBL group has just had the third meeting. The discussion went straight into hats. Now imagine my puzzled and slow brain (and face) doing its best to make sense of what the hats meant. Thanks to my very engaged group, I was able to feel less dumb as the conversation unfolded. Could this be the reason why some people find it hard to participate in the sometimes chaotic learning practice of the digital world? We cannot be that agile all the time! Luckily I had read the suggest article and watched David White's videos (great sources!) so at least I had an idea of what was being said on the vis...