It is not a simple task to put all the lessons learned through this ONL course into a blog post, but this one will attempt to explain my experience through the process of the last 12 weeks. ONL started for me a little differently as most others.  It was recommended to me through work, andContinue reading “Topic 5: Lessons Learnt – Future Practice”

The idea of online/blended learning was a new concept to me as an educator when it was introduced due to Covid-19, although I had been exposed to online learning as a learner myself through various platforms, the side of an educator was a complete foreign concept. So, moving from a classroom, face-to-face environment to anContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection”

According to the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University:  “Learning communities provide a space and a structure for people to align around a shared goal. Effective communities are both aspirational and practical. They connect people, organizations, and systems that are eager to learn and work across boundaries, all the while holding members accountable to aContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”

The concept of open learning and MOOCs, before joining ONL202, was something that was completely new to me. Being introduced to it in this way was an eye-opening experience, and the below reflection is what I have taken away from topic 2: When this topic of “Openness” was introduced, I was very eager to understandContinue reading “Topic 2: Open Learning – Reflection”

2020 started out as any normal year, little did we know at that point, that we would be thrown into a pandemic which has turned the education system (particularly in South Africa) on its head! The norm of getting up and going to work in the morning to conduct a full day of classes, seeingContinue reading “Topic 1: Online Participation and Digital Literacies – Reflection”

We have successfully embarked in the first two weeks of ONL202 and have made it through the first week of topic one. Starting this journey was a mixture of both excitement and nervousness, however, the nerves have seemed to disappear and the excitement has grown in leaps and bounds now that we are starting toContinue reading “Getting Started and Connecting”