PLN or Personal Learning Network is based on learning theories such as connectivism that can leverage internet technologies to connect us to our colleagues, mentors, and professionals to enhance our learning and help us to take charge of our own professional development. PLN theories are extensively addressed here by Kay ...

Photo by “My Life Through A Lens” on Unsplash 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 ...

The 5 stage model of Gilly Salmon (2013) is really interesting and next semester I will make use of it both as a teacher and as a director of studies. This while it is essential for the learning outcome that students from the very beginning get to know how to ...

Tho most important things I have learnt through this ONL course are the following: 1) Learning online is really fun. Even if the environment is different from campus, it’s still possible to learn by and from each other if all the members of the community are aware of how to ...

As the ONL202 ends, this post is a great exercise to reflect on what I (or we, the PLB14) learned during this course. I think to bring such a story to fruition, I probably... ...

In ONL we learned the Gilly salmon’s Five stage model. The model provides a framework for online learning and facilitation. There are many similarities between the model and how ONL is organized. The following figure briefly describes the model.  In the following I will try to fit ONL in the ...

Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash This journey started during September 2020 and two months later, it has ended. Nevertheless, it is not really the end, for me is the beginning of a new way of thinking, working, teaching and learning. The course, the PBLs and my ONL group influenced ...

During the two weeks devoted to this topic, we ended up analyzing our ONL202 course in relation to the Community of Inquiry (CoI). First time I have heard such a name! We went through a webinar, books, notes and reflections from experts, websites, and a long list of other interesting ...

Before ONL202 and this particular topic, I thought that I was collaborating many times during my life. First as a student, later as a researcher. However, after critically analyzing collaborative learning, I regret to inform myself that I was wrong. Usually we understand collaboration as an interaction between persons with ...

After 12 weeks, it’s time to summarize and reflect on what I learned in the course Open Networked Learning (ONL202). The purpose of the course was for me to develop the view of online learning from a student perspective, and at the same time develop my way of teaching online ...