Ting Hui

From confusion to enlightenment

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Ting Hui

The running joke in our discussion group has been that we will delete our blogs once the ONL202 course is over… I’m not too sure myself if I would continue blogging, but it is nice to be able to reflect on the intensive weeks since mid-September, when we began this journey. Although I have had… Continue reading From confusion to enlightenment

Learning by Design

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Ting Hui

A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design

Learning collaboratively—online

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Ting Hui

Group-work has not always been something I looked forward to as a student and I took those past negative experiences into account when I planned for group projects for the course I teach. The scenario we were given to discuss for Topic 3 of ONL202 about learning in communities—networked collaborative learning contrasted “group-work mode from… Continue reading Learning collaboratively—online

Open learning is not black-and-white

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Ting Hui

I had initially assumed that the second topic of the ONL202 course, Open Learning—Sharing and Openness, would be a relatively straightforward one. But as we went through the introductory material and began our first group discussions, I started to realise that the topic was, for lack of a better word, really open… The first aspect… Continue reading Open learning is not black-and-white

Moving back-and-forth: Digital Visitors or Residents

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Ting Hui

Over the past two weeks, we have been diving deep into the first topic of the Online Networked Learning course: Online participation and digital literacies, starting with a webinar by David White and Jörg Pareigis. The concepts of ‘Digital Natives and Immigrants’ (Prensky, 2001) and ‘Visitors and Residents’ (White & Le Cornu, 2011) were discussed… Continue reading Moving back-and-forth: Digital Visitors or Residents

Hello ONL202

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Ting Hui

Welcome to my blog, where I will be sharing reflections from ONL202 Open Networked Learning over the next few weeks. I am a lecturer and curator at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore (NUS). I started teaching for the first time last semester and it was an interesting time adapting… Continue reading Hello ONL202