Reflections on Open networked Learning

  Reflections on Topic 2 - Open learning - Sharing and Openness              Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Well, this topic was huge !!!  The discussions spanned across various paradigms and perspectives. What began as an initial discussion on the need for openness and sharing in higher education soon converged into a debate on the pros and cons embedded in the system related to knowledge sharing. Somewhere down the line, we started speaking about the seemingly unethical practices regarding article processing charges (APC) to make knowledge 'open source' and how it inevitably creates categories among researchers seeking to publish - one, those who can afford to pay the fees and garner attention; and two, the others who did not have the funds or the possibility to pay and therefore run the risk of remaining unnoticed. The group was clearly divided in this - those who saw this as inevitable due to processing costs and involved remunerations. The others who thought that APCs

  Photo by Derek Thomson on Unsplash Hello everyone....Soniya Billore here and I will share some of my reflections on being part of the ONL202 course Topic 1: Digital literacies . I must say that this topic opened some new doors for me - not only in terms of content and context but also for the tools we used to discuss and elaborate on the topic on digital literacies in our fun group PBL 13. The topic was very relevant to the actual experience teachers, researchers and practitioners are facing in the new normal- how to deal with digitalization and use them effectively. Digitalization definitely creates lots of possibilities but it also opens its own unique can of worms !! Now if we really want to optimize the value and benefit of digitalization, we need to think about it through multiple perspectives and through a discussion be able to identify the points of leverage and points of pitfalls. Our group did exactly this -  We focussed on Digital literacies and Online participation and we

 Hey there...finally here !!! My name is Soniya Billore and nice to meet you all