It is not an easy job to provide a place for learners in online classes. For task 4, we reflected upon Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, a framework that describes three presences, namely Social, Cognitive and Teaching for online learning spaces. CoI aims to promote efficient online learning environments where students and instructors orient toContinue reading “Place-making in online courses”

Students usually sign up for an online course assuming that assignments will be done individually. There is an expectation that online environments will favor asynchronous interaction between the student and the instructor. So, some students groan when they find out there will be group assignments and resist this team-based approach to distance learning. To beContinue reading “Doing being collaborative and cooperative”

Today’s post is a bit of a reflection on reflection, and how it has been resourceful for me to reflect, process and adapt. What I am adopting as a new habit with this course is having some time to think, reflect and process through the act of writing. I might call it an internal cravingContinue reading “Reflection on reflection”

For task 2, we were supposed to work on the concepts of openness and sharing in education. I must confess that before registering for this course, I was seeing MOOCs as the bread and butter of online learning. That’s why, I might be attracted to this course in the first place. But, with the assignedContinue reading “Sharing is messy”