In this last blog post for ONL192, I’ll begin by briefly explaining how we came up with our meme. I will then summarize the most significant ways in which the ONL course helped me. The image we had selected for our meme features 3 minion cartoon characters – one minion is pulling on a pieceContinue reading “We worked on the edge but it was worth it! (Topic 5)”

Topic 4 was especially beneficial for me for 2 main reasons. Firstly, it was a timely opportunity for me to reflect on my own efforts in recent years to promote collaboration amongst my own students with the help of blended learning. 2 years ago I started experimenting with online learning activities and, to my surprise,Continue reading “Wearing the learner’s hat: Viewing blended learning from a student’s perspective (Topic 4)”

It was in this topic that I felt that we had really collaborated as a group. For previous topics what we were doing would better be described as group work – we participated by individually contributing articles, weblinks, or personal anecdotes, but there was not much collaborative discussion going on. Don’t get me wrong –Continue reading “Evolving from group work to collaboration (Topic 3)”

This was the first time that I had come face-to-face with a topic about exploring openness as an educator. Thanks to a few MOOCs and podcasts that I had attended in recent years, I was very much on the receiving end of things, benefitting as a student from the openness of other educators. But IContinue reading “What do I need to know to be an open educator (Topic 2)?”

Reading “Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement” by David White and Alison Le Cornu made me reflect on a recent experience. When I introduced blended learning into one of my courses last year, I thought that my students would enjoy the online learning activities because it would be very different from the […]

My ONL journey starts today. I’m very excited about what’s in store!