Thank you to all ONL Team, Lotta from Lund University and my fellows here at Lund with whom I had two lovely lunch meetings, Special thanks to the PBL Group 1 members: Our group facilitators: Alastair and Mboni, Our group members: Anna-Karin, Diego, Lorraine, Peter, and Yadhna! It has been lovely getting to know you, […]
Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning
This week I have started to think about the ways in which I can design a blended course. In order to do so, I had to consider various issues: 1- What is a blended course? I realised that I was somewhat confused about online teaching and blended courses. Blended courses, also called hybrid or mixed-mode […]
Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
Never have I known that VUCA was an acronym used by the US Military until listening to the webinar from our online platform yesterday (11 November 2019). VolatileUncertainComplexAmbigious is what VUCA stands for and the term was coined after the Cold War in the 1990s! Although the contents of VUCA may sound difficult and a […]
Topic 2: Open Learning-Sharing and Openness
In topic two, I had a chance to learn about sharing and openness, and think about the pros and cons of openness in teaching and learning. In a sense, like the visitor and residence continuum in the digital world, there is a continuum of sharing and openness. I might be very open at times, as […]
Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies
Open networked learning course had kicked off, and it has already introduced me to new concepts like native digitals and immigrant digitals as two distinct groups within digital literacy. But wait! Like any other concept we use in social sciences, digital literacy, which is often defined as “those capabilities which fit an individual for living, […]
My First Blog Post
This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
About me
I received my Ph.D. degree in Political Science at the Department of Government, London School of Economics in January 2017. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Collective memory and competition over identity in a conflict zone: the case of Dersim”, explores the causes and mechanisms of ongoing competition over the nature of national identity through a case study of Dersim […]