This has been a great journey. So many interesting people and so many useful things that we have looked into. The topics have been well chosen and prepared with good speakers and interesting reading materials. At first, I thought that twelve weeks would be a far too long period for the course, but it was […]
Design for online and blended learning – Topic 4
This has been a difficult topic for me. Mainly because I’m not a teacher and I don’t plan courses. I’m extremely happy that I have such skilled team members that know what they are talking about. My reflections of this topic will be more from a learner’s perspective. At my age (50+) when I attend […]
How to make online group work functional and engaging
Topic 3 I have joined quite many group works online, of which a fair amount has been rather bad. One reason for this I think is the fact that teachers have received none or very little education in how to execute group work online. Due to the pandemic teachers all over the world have been […]
Is all higher education going to be in English in the future? (Topic 2)
If you as an educator wish to use open education resources (OERs) for your own needs, you can find plenty of useful OERs online. The jungle of information is huge, but when getting used to searching you can find open materials in almost every field of education. For tips on how to find and use […]
To become digitally literate is more difficult for people who didn’t grow up with digital gadgets
For me there is a long way to go to become digitally literate. It’s probably not even possible when listening to David White’s Youtube clip “Visitors and Residents” where he is citing Mark Prensky’s theory saying “If you are young enough to have grown up with digital technology – you are native to it”. I […]