During this course, I learned from my fellow students so much about open networked learning, blended learning and how to use digital tools in an effective way. As a teacher and researcher, tackling the challenges posed to software engineering and computer science requires the combination of both the traditional roles of researcher and teacher. And […]
Edi and Online&Blended Learning
My own experiences. In the last five years, I have started digitizing campus courses and developing new online courses to be exclusively given to industrial professionals. Working in this new setting involves a close interaction with students using digital tools and blended learning. Nowadays, teaching has evolved and teachers are adopting blended learning techniques throughout […]
Challenges in Collaborative Learning
I reflected quite a lot on the frustrations of both teachers and students in online collaborative learning. I started by reading quite an interesting paper [1] that outlined some of these issues: Even if some of these issues seem generic enough to be applied to any collaborative learning tasks, I think many of the challenges […]
My reflections on opening the education material in a course
I reflected quite a lot on this topic, especially when thinking of the courses I teach. My main thoughts here relate to opening educational resources with other teachers and students. The idea is to help teachers get easy access to high-quality material. In the end the main goal is to reduce workload for teachers and […]
Online Spaces and Digital Literacy in Online Software Engineering Courses
We had quite a lot of nice discussions in our group related to online spaces and digital literacy in general. I took from this many ideas related to awareness of unsafe space and behavior and awareness of unsafe behavior – working agreement as well as the multi-disciplinary nature of digital literacy by Bridging the digital […]