ONL181 has been quite an experience. Diving into being a learner. Being confronted with knowledge gaps in areas that I had thought to be well informed about. ( e. g. my huge gaps and ignorances in digital literacy). I had the opportunity to reflect on pedagogical theories that strongly blend into what I had been … Continue reading This is (not) the end, my friend! →

I have thus far entirely been an offline teacher. And I should urgently change that. Medical schools are offline teaching institutions in Germany. My university takes pride in being a “presence university”. Students have to come and attend lectures and seminars. In our medical program students have to be present almost 45 hours per week … Continue reading Current practice! What practice? →

Developing groups to teams can be quite a challenge in real life. How much more is it a challenge online? Online learning is really strongly depending on the quality of our personal relationship to the members of the group we are learning in. My personal learning network almost naturally consists of people whom I can … Continue reading Swinging with each other in online communication →

Now think about it: How can teaching be closed? If one teaches another they have to open up, don’t they? If you close yourself up, there is no teaching and no learning. It is a bit like Watzlawick’s “One cannot not communicate.” You cannot teach and be all closed. If you are not closed, openness … Continue reading Openness in education – What the heck does that mean? →