未分类 – Open Networked Learning

Reflection on Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Caihong Xu

The ONL journey came to the end, but my journey of improving my teaching with blended learning has just started. This course definitely fostered my teaching expertise and skills very much. The course ended with Topic 5 titled: Lessons learnt – future practice, which is another thing I valued on the design of this course. […]

Reflection on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Caihong Xu

Until now, I stilll remembered clearly how anxious I was in the spring of 2020, when the dean of our school asked whether I could change the on-campus exam to online exam three days before the scheduled exam date for my course due to the deterioration of the covid-19 situation in Sweden. And from then, […]

Reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Caihong Xu

For topic 3, we started with a given scenario as follows: “So often when we ask students to collaborate, they see it as merely a way of distributing the workload, and not as an opportunity to build and consolidate their collaborative skills. They fall into old ways of working in groups where the task is […]

Reflection on Topic 2: Open learning – Sharing and Openess

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Caihong Xu

During the two-week course period for Topic 2, each member of our PBL group investigated the willingness and chanllenges of openness from our own insititution. Here, I would like to share with you my little investigation on Stockholm University. “Since 1878, Stockholm University has been characterized by openness and innovation (www.su.se/english).” Currently, we offer 75 […]

Reflection on Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Caihong Xu

Before the webinar by David White, I watched David’s short video on the concept of Visitors and Residents on YouTube. This seven minutes’ video briefly walked me through the notion of “digital natives” v.s. “digital immigrants” put forward by Pensky (2001), arguments for why this metaphor is flawed and David’s alternative proposal of “Visitors & […]