This is my final entry addressing the ONL course – it’s on topic 5 “lessons learned – future practices” This course was quite an experience! It kept me breathless throughout – from being overwhelmed in the beginning by being confronted with a completely new experience of course design and learning activities, to further taking part … Continue reading Future practices of teaching

This entry is part of the course ONL192 (topic 4 “Blended Learning / Design”)  In which way can emotions facilitate students’ learning experience? How can they create more commitment in students and in which way do they help the course to be completed by a majority of participants rather than a few? This entry, as … Continue reading Teaching and Emotions

This entry is part of the course ONL192 (topic 3 Learning in Communities) Online teaching and learning can be a very distanced, detached experience – high drop out rates and incomplete assignments haunt the online learning environments in many conventional distance courses. Taking this course, the ONL 192, helped me to understand why this happens … Continue reading Learning through friendship

Blog entries with the category “ONL 192” will be a place where I post reflections that are part of my participation in the Open Network Learning course (ONL 192), October – December 2019. Topic 1: Digital literacy Starting this course, I am intrigued by the usage of social media for teaching, really intersted in learning … Continue reading Digital literacy and social media phobia

  Teaching is an art form, according to educational studies scholar Diane Laurillard; it is entertainment and also – in order to be “teaching” it needs to be more than just entertainment. It is based on a “formally defined goal” (Laurillard 2013:1) with the aim to create a space of reflection, to create learning and … Continue reading It’s just a chair…. Learning environments and how they matter…

How does a virutual learning environment differ from a campus-based classroom and what new and different learning environments does this require? This is another entry I write in the frame of a course at the university called Teaching in Higher Education. Its a course with a strong focus on online teaching and blended learning. I … Continue reading Virtual Learning Environments

I am currently wondering how to create an online classroom (without face-to-face time due to distances and financial restrictions of the students) that is exciting and can convey a similar excitement than a face-to-face learning environment often does. Blended learning is a way for Gender Studies in Karlstad to create a good classroom atmosphere, interesting … Continue reading Teaching online… in the field of Gender Studies and Transgender Studies.

This is a the field where I will soon add some information on background and objectives of my own approach within pedagogy and what I particularly understand as transfeminist pedagogies.