I did not have specific expectations on what to learn during the ONL course, but I did expect that it would make me reflect more on my teaching. And this it did indeed. The most important thing it taught me are new concepts around which to frame my tea…
ONL 4 – Blended and online learning
My courses follow a rather straight forward template. They consist of frontal 90 minute lectures, which contain me writing on the blackboard, interaction with the students, small exercises for them to do during the lecture and weekly mandatory assignme…
Design for Online and blended learning – Main principles and good practices
The basis of our work are the seven design principles suggested in chapter 1 of Vaughan, N. D., Cleveland-Innes, M., & Garrison, D. R. (2013). Teaching in blended learning environments: Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry. Edmonton: AU Press. From there, our goal was to give more concrete guidelines on how to adhere to these design […]
ONL 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
So, networked collaborative learning it was in topic three. Let’s untangle this a bit, we have learning here, and it’s done collaboratively and in a network. Eugene Kim from Faster than 20 immediately comes to mind. He has a lot to say on collabor…
ONL 2 – Sharing and Openness
A while ago, I wrote about Open Access in the context of science and in particular, collaborative science. Since then, a lot has happened. By now, the University systems of Sweden, Germany and California no longer have access to Elsevier arti…
ONL – Topic 1 – Online participation & digital literacies
As to be expected, the beginning of the course was a lot about people getting to know each other and finding a relationship. A first and very positive finding was the video software Zoom. It works extremely well, even with 60 people attending a video c…