In this last blog post I will summarize my main take-aways from the ONL course and also reflect about future steps. Let me start by a meme although this picture doesn’t show the whole truth about reasons for converting to online or distance courses with blended learning (for other reasons see my last blog post).Continue reading “Lessons learnt and future practice (through the metaphors of traffic situations)”

Covid has made more pupils and students working online and the presence among students that usually not attend every lesson has increased due to this fact. Still, many students express feelings of loneliness and a too big responsibility to drive your learning “by your self”. I do believe that we can better prepare our coursesContinue reading “Considering Communities of Inquiry and Blended learning for Design of Distance Education”

In this blog on topic 4 I will give a short view of the history of Community in Practices and then elaborate a bit about the differences between Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks. Finally, I illuminate some characteristics of a learning community online and reflect upon my PBL groups journey in relation to that.Continue reading “From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online”

Picture: Gerd Altmann från Pixabay Considering openess in higher education is tricky. There is so many different ways to go and aspects to consider. Openness may embrace both taking part of open resources, participating in open networks and sharing as an academic and as a learner. But, it is also about our values and howContinue reading “To take part, participate and/or share: reasons and modes of openess in higher ed.”

BLOG Topic 1 What kind of online participation do I engage in and in what way? To what extent can I consider myself as digital literate, if at all? What kind of specific skills and attitudes do these digital activities requires? How can I become more digital literate, and finally, how can I as anContinue reading “Online participation and digital literacies: rhizomatic re-mixing and doubts about it”

We are connected. We have had our first webinar and also meetings with the PBL-group. To get started required some effort in order to orientate on the course web-site, set the blog and get a grip on what the PBL-group should do and who we are. But now it feels like I’ve started and thingsContinue reading “Connected”