Quite frankly, I did not really know what to expect when I enrolled for ONL202. It was a recommended course within my university’s pedagogical program for teachers and it seemed the perfect time to learn more about online and networked learning. So I just went for it. And maybe having no distinct expectations allowed meContinue reading “Lessons learnt – looking back, yet moving forward”

On August I got an email from my university about available pedagogical courses, and ONL cought my eye. After the benji-jump into online teaching on spring 2020, I was eager to learn how it actually should be done. It also sounded very reasonable to study online learning in an online-course and the very international approach […]

“Why learn online with other people?” Jon Dron and Terry Anderson ask in their article Teaching crowds: learning and social media (2014). Their answer is as simple and straightforward as the question: because it is possible. At the time when article was written, roughly one third of world’s population had access to internet and the […]

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR
Reflections on the ONL course. The course content is the course. Online learning can be fun, interactive and bind peop…

This is a series of blog posts about my learning activities in the
Open Networked Learning (ONL202) pedagogical course.

TL;DR
Reflections on the ONL course. The course content is the course. Online learning can be fun, interactive and bind peo…

I was very delighted when I first red about the five-stage-model developed by Gilly Salmon in ONL2020 course. Since the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020 I had struggled to figure out how to support students’ learning online, and there it was – a readily buildt method exactly for that. When discussing the fourth […]

I have to admit, that I have never found open learning very intriguing question, and definetely not one related to my field. I had actually never really thought of the subject matter before it was introduced to us as second topic of ONL2020 course, and even then I could not see it having any connection […]

The online revolution in higher education has started decades ago and is by no means something new. But it has experienced a tremendous boost caused by the massive restrictions that we went through in 2020. Countless courses taught in physical classrooms in the past were migrated to the virtual space. The fact that teaching takesContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning – Evolution of the “Teachilitator””

When you enter a new course like ONL you come with the expectation that the teaching materials will offer you new pedagogical approaches and ideas. Topic 4 on the course concerned design for online and blended learning. One of the keynotes as well as k…