Gilly Salmon’s Five stage model offers an opportunity for teachers to reflect on how they (as teachers) need to support students in their development to be able to assimilate digital teaching and develop their ability to collaborate in the best possible way. The model is presented as a staircase with ...

Topic 4 kicked my OCD and I didn’t seem to let go. In our PBL we discussed quite a lot about what is the main difference between learning communities and communities of inquiry. It... ...

Topic 4 kicked my OCD and I didn’t seem to let go. In our PBL we discussed quite a lot about what is the main difference between learning communities and communities of inquiry. It... ...

Designing for online and blended learning I write this blog form a little bit of an outsiders perspective, since I have not been teaching for the last couple of years, and have -thankfully- missed all the stress of the suden move to online teaching. I also write it as a ...

During this journey a teacher pointed out that that “cognitive presence relates to what you talk about now and social presence is related to communities and sense of belonging”. I think this is important to keep in mind, although I thought the topic would only relate to different design tools ...

To have a successful distance learning for students, students need to have a sense of feeling immersed in the “distance learning environment”. One thing that came to my mind is that an immersed experience through gamification might be an effective way of transfer knowledge, where course materials can be broken ...

Photo by Matteo Vistocco on Unsplash The picture visualize when a group works and it works because they practise to work together and everybody participate, they know eachothers skills and they have their roles. The work doesn´t progress if they aren´t all giving their best. Alone is not strong… but ...

This week’s topic brought to our PBL discussion the issue of defining a learning community, and most importantly, in our role as teachers, on how to lead a learning community. My personal belief is... ...

After two inspiring weeks of seminars with my peers on the topic “learning in communities” it’s time to write a few words. All the peers of our group are excellent participants and it has been a wonderful experience to lead the work on this topic together with Stephanie and with ...

As a researcher my work is about constantly learning new things. Whenever I master something, I move forward to the areas that provide me with new challenges. And something that I have learned in doing this is that learning is much more efficient and much more fun together. Research is ...