The course is aimed at teachers, course designers, educational developers and educational technologists in higher education. It offers opportunities to explore the potential of open networked learning with colleagues from around the world in a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural context.

ONL is offered as a freely available open course as well as professional development course in higher education pedagogy for teachers at the collaborating institutions. The course is equivalent to two weeks of full time studies, i.e. 80 hours, and runs for a period of 12 weeks.

Course aim

The aims of the course are to offer participants opportunities to explore and gain experience from collaborative, open online learning in order to understand the value, potential and challenges of using digital learning spaces to support teaching and learning.

Intended learning outcomes

The objective of the course is for the participant to acquire knowledge, understanding, skills and abilities in order to be able to:

• explain, discuss and reflect on different aspects of online learning such as digital literacy, collaborative learning and openness.
• critically reflect on questions concerning open networked learning related to own teaching practice.