Ana Maria Barral

Openness and OER

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Ana Maria Barral

Yesterday a friend of ours came to visit after a 2 month trip to different countries of Europe- he is very cosmopolitan. We chatted and shared our enjoyment of wide-ranging stimulating conversations on multiple topics. He because he had met a lot of interesting people during his travels and I because of ONL191. Seriously! One […]

On the student side of the great divide (and some PBL thoughts)

Posted on February 28, 2019March 8, 2019 by Ana Maria Barral

I teach online a lot. In fact, I am teaching online now- a non majors general biology lab course. Students do some hands-on labs at home, and they also complete virtual lab experiments and simulations, watch videos, write lab reports, and post and comment on discussion boards. So being at the same time a student […]

I am back!

Posted on February 19, 2019March 8, 2019 by Ana Maria Barral

Well, it has been a while. Almost 4 years! Guess it has been busy. I am back because of the Open Networked Learning course: ONL191. How do I know about it? When I visited Sweden last year, my friend Gizeh told me about it. Gizeh and I go way way back, to Cuba and our […]