Open Networked Learning: final reflections Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Antonio Cicchetti When I registered for this course and expressed my expectations, I wrote that I was seeking for the holy grail of students’ engagement. Moreover, in an internal workshop at my university (Mälardalen University, MDU), I told that my impressio…
Experiences in both Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Antonio Cicchetti In my teacher experience I have had the luck of experimenting Online Learning design well before the COVID-19 emergency hit the whole education world. In particular, I have been creator and organiser of a distance course for professionals. In tha…
Learning in communities: do our students know how it works? Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Antonio Cicchetti After more than a month through the course on Open Networked Learning (ONL), the webinar on Learning Communities [1] and some of the suggested literature for the topic [2, 3] stimulated some reflections on courses organisation and …
Learning in communities: do our students know how it works? Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Antonio Cicchetti After more than a month through the course on Open Networked Learning (ONL), the webinar on Learning Communities [1] and some of the suggested literature for the topic [2, 3] stimulated some reflections on courses organisation and …
Openness in Education: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Posted on November 7, 2021November 7, 2021 by Antonio Cicchetti I am part of the generation that fully experimented the transition into the Web era: from the primordial telephone-line based connections towards more and more bandwidth capable connections, until nowadays data connections available even on mobil…
Could be Facebook a good tool for students’ engagement? Posted on October 14, 2021October 23, 2021 by Antonio Cicchetti Honestly, I have never taken into account Facebook as a potential tool for teaching and learning. I would never recommend to be friend with your students, and vice versa would never expect that students’ would be friends with their teachers. Simply put…
Self-reflections on engagement Posted on September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 by Antonio Cicchetti I am participating to a course on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) with the intent of finding new ways of motivating students to engage in their learning process. Here, for students I mean the more general category of people that commit to some …
