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…
Last week’s keynote by Hülya Basaran
During last week’s pedagogical conference at Karlstad University, I had the pleasure to listen to the keynote by Hülya Basaran. Hülya held a very inspirational speech about her immigrant background, being different, braking norms and following one’s dreams. I’m always…
Presentation at pedagogical conference at Karlstad University
Today, I am attending the pedagogical conference at Karlstad University. This year’s topic is about gender integration in teaching. During the morning we will listen to a couple of presenations on how colleagues have worked with gender and gender equality…
Everything reloaded – finally a new homepage
Finally it is done. For years I wanted to make an update to my old and rusty blog/homepage. It was running on Joomla, as I had worked with the CMS for some time, running the AFL Sweden homepage and in…
The CC global network
Most of the people and institutions who are part of the CC movement are not formally connected to Creative Commons. One player in the larger open movement is the CC Global Network. It is the home for a community of advocates,…
CC licensed works
By 2018, there have been over 1.4 billion works published on the Internet with CC licenses. The biggest collections on platforms such as Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, and DeviantArt. Since 2014, this number of CC licensed works has almost doubled. …
Excited about 2nd run of @openUCE
In 10 days, we will start the second run of our open networked learning course “Understanding Customer Experience”. We got a new homepage and I’m testing all new functions and gimmicks. Stay tuned for more info. Ah, btw. If you…
Day two of cMOOC with internet havoc
What a rollercoaster ride the first two days of our new open course have been. After a fantastic start yesterday, with a lot of new registrations and the first participants connecting their blogs to the course homepage, the unthinkable happened this afternoon. A digging…
Start of my first open networked learning course
After a good year of planning, I finally kicked-off my first cMOOC today. Almost one and a half years ago, I started this blog as a participant in FDOL. Today, already on the first day of the course, I have participants from Sweden and around…