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PhD Defense in corona times

Posted on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 by petert

Christo, the local audience and the remote audience.One of my PhD students, Christo Dordlofva was to graduate on March 17, with a grading board from three different universities in Sweden and external examiner (opponent) from Texas. But due to restrict…

Corona and the quick change in higher education

Posted on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 by petert

One week ago life was running almost as usual here in Luleå, international travel was not recommended bit teaching was performed as usual. Then it quickly changed.March the 12:th, restrictions on travel. US closed borders on travel.March 17:th change t…

Global collaboration in early phases

Posted on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 by petert

Today I, unfortunately, had to leave the webinar a little early because I had my own course to teach. The course is called creative concept development and it was appropriate that today’s theme was Global Collaboration.Today’s lecture.So I had prepared…

Connectivism and obsolesce of knowledge

Posted on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 by petert

When searching on the web on PBL, Learning networks, Networked learning I found an interesting concept – Connectivism (Siemens 2005) that explains how Internet technologies have created new opportunities for people to learn and share i…

Implementing networked learning ideas in a local course

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by petert

When I decide to read this course my brain started to think about how I could implement Networked Learning in my classes. Today most of my classes are taught at campus and I focus a lot on the active learning activities with students, as an example see…

ONL201@LTU

Posted on February 25, 2020February 26, 2020 by petert

Today we had a startup meeting at Luleå University of Technology. Before this meeting, I was expected to prepare one slide where I should present myself, why I wanted to join the course and my expectations. Creating all this in one slide is quite trick…

PBL vs CDIO

Posted on February 19, 2020February 26, 2020 by petert

PBL vs CDIOI have been working with CDIO implementation (Wikberg Nilsson et al 2017) in the Industrial Design Engineering programme that I am responsible for at Luleå University of Technology, and even that it feels like I am quite familiar with PBL I …

Now its official

Posted on February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 by petert

Telemarking in a lot of snow.Now I am officially admitted to the course and now preparing for the first start-up meeting in Luleå (Feb 25:th), getting a Twitter account (@PeterTorlind). Also updating this Blog and added a previous experience page, so y…

Preparing for course start

Posted on February 4, 2020February 12, 2020 by petert

I have decided to join an open networked learning course (https://www.opennetworkedlearning.se) and this is the Blog that will be used to present my learning experience in this area.