Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning I could relate to this topic quite a lot as I’ve been experimenting with online and blended learning designs for some years now. As an undergraduate student in Eastern Europe in the late-2000s, most of my courses were lecture and textbook based. Just to get an idea,
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In this blog series a chronicle the insights from Open Network Learning course by fusing insights with elements from pop culture. Last week of the course. Teaching will never be the same. Some events, when you look back, had such a profound impact on your teaching that it shattered the very foundations to an extent
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'Affect' in and of teaching is positioned as how to make sense of face-to-face teaching and particularly what we as teachers frame as learning communities. Clearly, no learning encounter can be devoid of affect – but what 'affect' means for teachers and students is different, and the question why it is positioned as central to learning remains if not shrouded in mystery, then at least a bit unexplored scientifically.
Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments. This topic has been very helpful as I have been facilitating and lecturing for a year plus now and I truly value the detailed recommendations and resources shared. For online blended learning, I will definitely refer to
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After a few months journey, the “Open Networked Learning” course has come to an end. It has been a really nice experience, which has enriched me with new knowledge from…
Topic 3 is by far the most interesting topic for me as I could relate to it when I was a student, and I can relate to being on the educator’s end now. An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward An occasion where real learning took place was
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When it comes to learning creating effective online learning, learning by doing by doing still beats the books. Online tools can to some degree make up for interaction and pedagogical techniques
What openness means for your own practice I think what David Wiley mentioned in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0syrgsH6M) made me reflect a lot on my own ways of working. Openness means sharing and being generous with the redistribution, revision, remixing of the content one has developed. Prior to this course, I admit that I definitely am
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When reflecting back on this ONL course and this spring it is impossible not to think about the dramatic events in society caused by the Coronavirus and the world wide epidemic with its overall impacts in many areas and the sudden need for online teaching – “remote emergency teaching” rather than planned online course teaching, …
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To assess myself as a facilitator of online learning, I used the Online Facilitation Checklist (City University, 2016) to identify strengths and areas of development: Check that all resources, activities and links work and are accessible by students.This is certainly …
Läs mer →Vaughan et al. (2013) positions the ideas of engagement and academic inquiry as central both for higher education and for learning communities, and use the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to discuss blended learning in higher education. Blended learning is …
Läs mer →“designers and educators need to create places that are not only safe to learn, but also spark some emotional interest” (Fielding 2006) To me, the fourth topic of the course, with its focus on emotional presence (Cleveland-Innes, 2008), particularly emotional presence within the Community of Inquiry framework (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell 2012) turned out to be some of …
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When reflecting on the third topic of this course and choosing one of the suggested questions for the blog posts, I was in doubt whether I could find a real learning experience that included: a) collaborative learning and b) something that moved my own thinking forward. The last part was the real challenge – how …
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#ONL201- Topic 5Joining ONL201 is one of the best decisions I have taken in the recent past. It is not often that such an opportunity comes along, and time could not have been more appropriate. I had a great learning time with my PBL group12. Regu...
#ONL201- Topic 4During COVID-19 outbreak many of us turned to ‘emergency remote teaching and learning’. What would happen when we go back to campus in the next semester? Going by the current situation, very likely, we will be converting our...
