Reflections from Open Networked Learning - Fall 2018

This week's discussion focused on why and how we can contribute to open educational resources, including open online courses. Why share online? People share online when they perceive that it enhances their professional reputation and when they feel a strong commitment to the community (Wasko & Furaj, 2005). When talking about community in this sense, it could be the larger global knowledge community, the community of one's academic discipline, a community of scholars, or smaller communities with defined goals and interests. Scarborough (2003) presented 4 postures of knowledge sharing: 1. Web - means of establishing connections with others 2. Ladder - sharing in pursuit of status and career advancement 3. Torch - sharing by following the example of leaders 4. Fortress - sharing to protect against external threats Reflecting on these 4 categories of sharing, I think of my own work and some examples: 1. A web - I think our ONL181 course is a great example of this typ...

This week our group has decided to explore the following question: How do we overcome the uncertainty of the digital world and encourage participation? . This question came out of our discussions from fear of participating (lack of technological skills, fearful of putting work out there for anyone to see and critique, participate...) . Although we are still in the midst of our discussions and inquiry, it is nice to hear each participants experience as a online learning facilitator and as a participants. In our final presentations, I have encouraged our team to share their own digital productions so we can focus on sharing, exchange and constructive feedback and try to move past potential fears together. As we continue to examine the perspectives of both the learner and the facilitator, I have read about Mishra's Design Framework for Online Learning Environments (2002). This framework helps us think about online learning from traditional learning theory paradigms and how we de...