This blog is created for the Open Networked Learning course I am taking, and I intend to keep it on that topic. I will therefore mention the current corona virus situation only in that context; the pandemic has caused a rapid transition of all university and high school teaching to being online, and digital literacy and online learning tools have suddenly become topical, to a large number of students and teachers. 

I was right in an intense teaching period when my university was closed to students this past week, but I actually made the transition to remote teaching shortly before I was forced to. For the main course I am teaching now (a 7.5 hp course on climate and the general circulation of ocean and atmosphere), I had already flipped the classroom, i.e. I had recorded lectures and used my classroom hours with my small group of students (six) for various kinds of problem solving, and it was easy for me to move these classroom activities to a digital platform. The students seem happy so far, and they even gave presentations of project work they had performed over zoom, without complaining. Next week, they will be given a take-home exam, as classroom exams can no longer be given. I expect will have reasons to come back to this very hands-on example of digital learning later in the course, and in blog posts to come.