Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Who am I as an individual in the digital age, and what characterizes your journey so far? Photo by NEOSiAM 2020 on Pexels.com Topic 1 in our ONL201 explores “Online participation & Digital literacies” which ...

Hello from Oldenburg!

Learning is like rowing upstream – not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb Here I will report about all the interesting input I´ll get on the ONL course.I´m looking forward to getting new ...

Topic 2 Open, a solution to bigger things?

During the last couple of weeks we have been working with Topic 2, Open Learning – sharing and openness. I have been introduced to new theories on connectivism and connected learning to name a few. We ...

Topic 4 Teaching presence not teacher presence

Topic 4 has come to an end. For me, a few words from the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework stays in my head; teaching presence not teacher presence. It if funny to think how only a ...

What is success in learning?

Before wecan start to think about course design for online environments, I feel that it is vital to have a definition of what we want to achieve: What is a successful learning situation? How can ...

Final blog post

Last topic of the course. Time to say goodbye. After several weeks of learning, exchanges, growth… a mixture of feelings comes over me. On the one hand, I am happy for the job done and ...

Design for online and blended learning

Hello! We are reaching the final stretch of the course and, despite so many weeks in contact with new knowledge, I feel that with each topic I have much more to learn. As I mentioned ...

Topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning

At the moment I only teach campus courses but I have experience with online courses as well, but that was some years ago, when technology wasn’t as good as it is now, and also I ...

Topic 5

I think the main merit of participating in the course actually has been to take part in a structured online course entity, and through that becoming familiar with tools that can be useful when having ...

Being Open: Drawing parallels from the Coffee House Model

What does ‘being open’ mean and what is its value? Does the value lie in open content? Does the value lie in the interactions that occur through discussions? Does the value lie in openness created ...