ONL222 Archipelago Through my participation in OLN 222, I was able to learn a lot. The interesting approach about this online course is that you don’t just learn how to do it, but you become very active yourself with the different topics and assignments. You really experience how open networked learning works (and where the […]

What Is Blended Learning and How Does It Work? | Prestwick House My current practice regarding online and blended learning designs The MOOC courses that have been created at the ZHAW so far, and which I helped to develop, are built as blended learning. You can imagine the courses like this: You can log on […]

A personal comment beforehand For me, it was somehow a relief to learn in the context of this Topic 3 that collaborative learning brings certain challenges with it. For a long time I thought that I was probably not that social, because I didn’t really enjoy group works and I often had to pull myself […]

«Was sind OER?» by OERinForm oer.amh-ev.de unter CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/, https://youtu.be/dpjrmx513wk Open learning The world is changing towards a more inclusive and interconnected global marketplace, where technology is playing an intensive role. Education actively responds to these changes by including more and more open education principles, quite often using diverse technologies to achieve so. […]

Source of illustration: “Literacy Rainbow (6/6)” flickr photo by justgrimes https://flickr.com/photos/notbrucelee/7159036564 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license.   Digital literacies are those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society. Me in the digital age I feel the same way too, as described in the scenario of this […]

My name is Florentina Gartmann and I am an environmental engineer. I work at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Switzerland as studio assistant for the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning and as an research assistant at the Institute of Natural Resource Sciences. I am very happy that I can attend this […]