It’s December 2020 and I have just completed the course Open Networked Learning (a course aimed at people working in education, interested in exploring possibilities and recommended practices of using digital tools in education). My take away message from the course is that digitals tools should be be used to promote active student learning. It
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When I registered for the course Open Networked Learning, I did it on a whim. I knew that I wanted to develop my pedagogical skills in de...
In my department, many of the researchers engage in design research. As a result, when we are designing something new, we often start wit...
For me, the most surprising, most heartening, and most frightening realization I’ve had through my participation in ONL, is online collaboration and learning is not that bad. This is probably a realization that many people have come to during the Corona Virus pandemic. I was getting there and then ONL really put the final nail
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I teach and electromagnetic theory course during the fall every year. The course is best described as “intermediate” and is compulsory for my department’s masters degree program. The class consists of applications of mathematics to specific problems in electrical engineering. The best teaching of this subject I have experienced is where an engaging personality writes
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Some reflection for topic 3. I find all three suggestions interesting and relevant to my own experience so I will respond to all three: An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward One occasion that really struck me happened during my postdoc in the context of a research manuscript.
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The end…
Marcus Stensmyr
December 16, 2020
Our last session was to summarize what we have learned. I think the most important aspect I take with me from this experience is that online learning works well...and it can be fun fun and as engaging as on-site learning. In the beginning I was m...
Frankly speaking, not so long ago my idea of online learning was barely an extension of regular learning with the change of medium. COVID-19 showed me why I was wrong. I had my first online teaching before summer and I felt for the first time something is missing. Keeping student engaged appeared to be a …
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Three months after the first ONL meeting, the strongest memory I have of it was that although it was totally my cup of tea in terms of topic and multiculturalism (having spent a third of my life in the UK, it feels very natural working with people from all over the world), it also seemed
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The fourth topic concerned on how to design a blended learning program.Blended learning is defined as the blend of two “face-to-face” and “online” learning modes or as described in [1], it is defined as “the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches”. We discussed three models, namely the five-stage model[2] ,
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The third topic centered around how to get people to really recognize the value of becoming part of a learning community and collaborate with their peers. The concept of collaborative learning is very new to me.I used to live and learn in a one-way broadcast environment. In a classroom with a strict rule (traditional style)
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The start of the ONL202 journey was daunting – a byzantine website with loads of material to scroll through, cryptic course description, out-of-the-box course obligatories and a very long to-do list at work to be ticked off during the autumn term. I was terrified about how to manage… but I did! I found the course
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Our group discussions were about how to share an online course, how to create open material, what the obstacles were and most importantly what the benefits were. To me, openness has two perspectives. The first perspective is from the point of view of academics who will share their materials (they share their knowledge) and the
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I was among the lucky ones who had a few months to prepare before starting to teach online. My first thought was how to simply transform online what I was doing in the class with a minimum effort. Even this was not easy. I started searching online for case-studies of courses with similar features as […]
I was among the lucky ones who had a few months to prepare before starting to teach online. My first thought was how to simply transform online what I was doing in the class with a minimum effort. Even this was not easy. I started searching online for case-studies of courses with similar features as […]
