A central challenge for all who design open online courses is establishing a supportive community and encouraging “passive” learners to become more active through careful scaffolding (Smith & Smith, 2014). An additional challenge is how to work on learners’ individual experience and goals while simultaneously promoting interaction and collaborative learning and achievement (Swan, 2002). The course Open Networked Learning (ONL) attempts to meet these challenges by designing a collaborative online learning environment including scaffolding for individual and group inquiry and building of Personal Learning Networks (Ossiannilsson, E., Uhlin, L. & Creelman, A. 2014).