Time passed by very quickly and before I knew it, the course was over. I learnt to make friends from different countries, learning different cultures. Also learnt  to relax by finding out how we were the precious weeks before proceeding to discuss our topic for the week. I also learnt to be accommodating with one another andContinue reading “Reflection on Topic 5: Lesson Learnt: Future Practice”

Our current practice on the development of blended learning is uploading of pre-recorded video lectures via online learning platform followed by  two hours of  face to face tutorial every week. However, this method of blended learning has changed since the COVID-19 situation because our students are required to do home-based learning.  We continue to upload pre-recorded lectures via theContinue reading “Week 4:Reflection on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning”

Many of our colleagues introduced some form of collaborative elements in their courses. They often shared their challenges during the department meetings. The common challenges are students did not do prior reading to prepare themselves adequately for the topic and are not actively participating in group discussion and assignments. Other challenges cited in the literatureContinue reading “Week 3: Reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Our group decided to focus on open rights instead of investigating on the scenario given. We explored and agreed on the five questions to be investigated. These five questions were (1) What do open rights mean for you? (2) What do you think are the benefits of open rights for educators? (3) What are theContinue reading “Reflection on topic 2: Open Learning: Sharing and Openness”

My colleagues did the ONL course last year and shared with me about the course contents. They were using terms such as blog, google drive etc.  The terms such as blog, google drive seems new to me and I had no idea of what they were talking about. I realised that technology has advanced veryContinue reading “Week One: Online Participation & Digital Literacies”