The class was an interesting journey. I was very lucky to have a great group and amazing facilitators. We had meetings and interesting discussions, and I really liked how people were able to collaborate almost immediately. The FISh document helped a lot, and I think I will use this approach in some of my courses.Continue reading “Topic 5: Reflections”

My experience is on developing and conducting blended learning classes in Software Engineering. I did not have the opportunity to develop fully online classes, and my first participation in an online class is in ONL. Let’s start with a short definition of what I mean by blended learning: it is a combination of face-to-face andContinue reading “Topic 4: Online and Blended Learning”

My personal experience in online collaboration extends to using learning management systems, chat platforms and document sharing platforms (and email). These experiences have always been complemented by having face-to-face meetings from time to time. I used two major platforms to communicate for collaboration with my teaching assistants: WhatsApp and Slack. I find each of themContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”

The second topic in ONL was dedicated to openness in ones courses and materials. Inthis post, I will focus on openness on sharing educational materials, and not on being open (approachable) as on a personal level.Many people are generally open in sharing material, but many of the materials do not have a clear source andContinue reading “Topic 2: To be or not to be… open”

After discussing this topic with my group, I have a few reflections related to three major topics. Firstly, the technical difficulties of using tools in teaching do not seem to be a huge issue once you go through a short initial training period (this is my bias computer scientist’s opinion). The more challenging part would […]

print “Hello world!” Hi all! This is how we start in Computer Science when we learn a new programming language. Since this is my first time participating in an online course and my first time writing a blog, it would only be fair to start the same. As you might guess, I am a computer […]