This is the meme that my group, PBL5, created for the final artefact of Topic 5. And what a swim it has been. What I liked best about this journey was the community that we built. Meeting up twice a week certainly helped, as well as having like-minded team members who were experimental and adventurousContinue reading “The Topic 5 Blog: Lessons learnt – future practice”

I’ve come across Marti Cleveland-Innes’ ‘Community of Inquiry’ model before in thinking of how students connect with each other on learning platforms — particularly where I am trying to develop knowledge building communities (Scardamalia and Bereiter, 2006). These two weeks the topic was aligned to how online learning is effectively designed, and Cleveland-Innes delivered aContinue reading “The Topic 4 Blog: Design for online and blended learning”

There is a logical trajectory on this ONL211 course, where we began with the initial journey into open networked learning, the challenges related to open access and now in topic 3, how those already on the network collaborate. One of the articles that we looked into highlighted the frustration that people experience — for variousContinue reading “The Topic 3 Blog: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

The new topic of ‘Open Learning’ surfaced ideological positions related to education as a whole. Should we share our resources and knowledge with the world, now that more than ever we have the ability to do so? Is education a private or a public good? This is a binary that I have mulled over beforeContinue reading “The Topic 2 Blog: Open Learning – sharing and openness”

22nd March 2021 I was looking forward to the first topic with PBL group 5 – online participation and digital literacies – the useful quadrant developed by David White using a “visitor” and “resident” continuum and further divided by “personal” and “institutional” was particularly enlightening in replacing the “Digital Native” and “Digital Immigrant” binary setContinue reading “The Topic 1 Blog: Online Participation & Digital Literacies”

This is the second time that I have created a WordPress site, however it is the first time that I am using it to blog. Blogging is not an activity that I have found particularly useful in the past, much of its effectiveness depends on who engages with you on the platform, or you’ll findContinue reading “Getting to grips with blogging”

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