As my PBL group no doubt learned, brevity is not one of my defining characteristics. The ONL experience has been one of significant interest and has introduced me to many new perspectives, especially in the last weeks where the topics moved beyond our …
Topic 4: What’s in a design?
In many cases, things designed for one purpose can serve another quite well, albeit with some adjustment or modification. This is how old warehouses and factories – especially, in the places I am most familiar with, cotton factories – become offices an…
Topic 3(b): Well, that went better than expected…
Some personal reflections on co-moderating.I must admit that I approached my rôle as moderator for this topic with a degree of trepidation. My co-moderator and I did not meet or plan anything before the first meeting. I, certainly, was unsure whe…
Topic 3 (a): A few hundred words, not a few thousand
To do this third topic justice would require several thousand words. Group work, collaboration, networks and communities are enormous topics, and the first two are often taken as core elements or experiences of university studies but the form that they…
Topic 2: Is this open?
This topic was a bit strange for me. Mostly because I was travelling, meeting an awful lot of new people and getting a real introduction to the context of my new job for a large part of the topic. This meant that I could not attend the middle two PBL g…
Topic 1: a first step
I have written a few blogs posts before, but always in a professional context as accounts of things done. This is the first dipping of a toe into the water of more personal blogging. Fortunately, within the ONL 212 course, there is no real question of …