Just checking, if connecting my blog works out better when I have made my first post.

A course, a community, an approach
Just checking, if connecting my blog works out better when I have made my first post.
I hope to be able to create informative and helpful posts soon. I added this first post to the ONL202 category as part of the activities for the Open Networked Learning course starting on September 2020.
This is the first time that I write a blog post. And quite frankly, I doubt that I will continue once my ONL journey has come to its end. Sure, one reason is that I don’t feel comfortable to put myself out there. I prefer to be a visitor in the www and leave asContinue reading “To blog or not to blog…”
This is a test
I took this class for the wrong reasons, but rightly so! And I explain: I could see the second COVID wave coming and I knew I would spend a lot of my time at home, so I saw this course as a way of adding an additional social activity in my “quarantine” life, without any […]
Online and blended learning have become the new normal but yet they suggest a highly disruptive model that cannot be adopted overnight. Implementing open and online/blended learning requires that we change not only the delivery methods and technologies, but also the culture and teaching practices. To adopt it can be overwhelming, so let’s take oneContinue reading “Topic 5: Lessons learned”
Depending on who’s asking, a meme is a novel evolutionary concept, a complex cultural phenomenon, of a picture with a writing in Impact font, white-filled, with a black border. Topic 5, at the conclusion of our ONL journey, discusses briefly what we have learned, and asks us to put our conclusions in meme form. What… Continue reading Topic 5: ceci n’est pas un meme
Something that I struggle with, in the context of online learning, is the enthusiasm of people. It seems to me that both teachers and learners tend to be very peppy about the topics of online learning, bleanded learning, flipped classrooms: it is difficult for me to detect the difference between a useful new concept and… Continue reading Topic 4 and the cult of online blended learning
When it comes to learning creating effective online learning, learning by doing by doing still beats the books. Online tools can to some degree make up for interaction and pedagogical techniques
“COVID-19 pandemic came unexpectedly and this course was still completely unaffected by the virus. In fact, the course became a necessity and enabled both educators and learners to explore new tools and put theoretical knowledge into practice. It was also a key part of our social life!” – Summary of the course by PBL groupContinue reading “5. The course has ended, but collaborative learning continues”
With the current situation, I assume that everyone working at universities or institutions have been in an online teaching-learning environment. Have you met the difficulties in engaging the students at these online or blended learning conditions? Have you encountered situations that on ZOOM teaching, the only people turning the camera on are yourself and theContinue reading “4. Socializing during online learning with a great camera game”