Blog for week 3 Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning In this third topic, we will explore aspects of collaborative learning in relation to networked online spaces for learning. To interact and learn together with peers in different formats have become an integral part of student centered education. Technology offers new possibilities for interaction and forming new kinds of social networks, including learners as well as facilitators and experts – but also offers challenges, such as keeping focus on learning processes, not tools, in online environments. You will be encouraged to reflect on the meaning of networked collaborative learning and the development of learning communities in relation to PBL and building personal learning networks and environments for peer support and your informal learning This week focuses on collaborative learning in communities and explored the difference between collaboration and corporation. Teaching in the virtual
Blog for week Topic 2: Open Learning – sharing and openness In this topic we will explore the benefits and challenges of openness in education. We will look at issues around copyright and in particular the open licensing of content (Creative Commons) and how this opens up new opportunities for collaborative learning and development. Sharing and reusing OER (Open Educational Resources) and the consequent development of OEP (Open Educational Practices) will also be examined. Openness as a continuum in education, education pedagogy has changed over the decades and from classroom in physical form to virtual interaction in the digital world. The transformation of has its good and bad points. Openness has enabled information and knowledge to be disseminated allowing more opportunities for the less privilege and collaboration. Social media tools like Youtube, and facebook etc. has been used. These tool initially intended to be for social interaction are powerful, convenient ( if th