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…
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…
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…
Reusing Creative Commons licensed work – two important differences
An important aspect in combining and adapting CC-licensed works is knowing the difference between collections and adaptations also called remixes, or derivatives. In this post, I will try to explain these two important differences. Collections A collection “involves the assembly…
Presentation at the Lifelong Learning Summit in Lillehammar
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…
Anatomy of a Creative Commons license
As a next post in this series, I will explain the anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) license, which build on copyright law. The licenses are used amongst others for Open Access publishing, which yields a lot of academic, economic, as…
A short introduction to Copyright
Currently, I am taking the Creative Commons Certificate course. In the initial module, which introduced creative commons is and its history and in which I made this timeline, the second module is about copyright. This is not so strange, as the…
Getting ready for E-Learning 3.0
Stephen Downes, a person that influenced and is still influencing me heavily, when it comes to my views on (open online) education, is in the middle of launching another course – E-Learning 3.0. It’s a classical cMOOC setup with an…
Self and peer assessment in a Marketing course
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…
Inaugural COER International Research Symposium
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…