For me, one major learning outcome from the ONL course was the realization that so much pedagogy, strategies and online tools have already been thought out, planned, executed and analyzed, that my colleagues and I certainly don´ t have to invent the wheel again. I´ m wholly convinced now of the value of collaborative learning,Continue reading “Topic 5 – Lessons Learnt: Go collaborative!”

These last two weeks we have been learning about – among many other things – the concept of four types of presence in learning (and I have here used the concept in a context of higher education). These have been described as the teaching, the social, the cognitive and the emotional presences.  At first, IContinue reading “University and The Universe”

Trying out various different tools for collaboration on-line has been very enlightening so far; partly because I have been (and am) very ignorant of all the tools available today, partly because the exercises and our group collaborations have illustrated in a very concrete way how we think about, sort and present information. Another bonus forContinue reading “Community learning”

Who doesn´ t want openness – openness and transparency and sharing and collaboration! Of course, most of us do, and in education as well. There isn´ t much to be said against sharing and discussing. Last week, I was looking for evidence-based papers on open education resources, in particular in the medical education sector. IContinue reading “Sesame, open!”

I embarked on the digital sea in the early 90’s, with email, and exclusively on a professional basis (cancer research). I don´t remember exactly when the next steps happened, but they involved the switch from the Current Contents paper catalogs to the Silver Platter CD’s and then to the amazing PubMed online searches for scientificContinue reading “On digital footprints and tools”

How is “to learn” expressed in your language? In Swedish and Scandinavian languages, there is a reflexive component suggesting activity (att lära sig = “to learn/teach oneself”) that you find also in Russian and Slavic languages, but not in many of the other European languages. By contrast, “to get an education” and also “to obtainContinue reading “An old reflection”

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