Scenario: “As the current pandemic situation evolves, a return to full in-person teaching and learning seems highly unlikely and the […]
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Scenario: “As the current pandemic situation evolves, a return to full in-person teaching and learning seems highly unlikely and the […]
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… and so we are at the end of the journey, or at least for the ONL experience. This post should be an opportunity to look back and reflect on what this course has provided to me in my career learning path. Therefore, let me try to summarize. First of all, this course was a […]
It was important for me in these last weeks to understand the differences between hybrid learning – where the in-person learners and the…
First of all, this is a very personal perspective and a particular experience. Second, I feel that this blog is somewhat the second part of my previous blog – BP3 -Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. Third, let me give context to my post by starting from the course I have just completed teaching […]
Third topic of the training was focusing on the teachers’ well-being but also the well-being of the community. This is something I have learned: 1) It was very interesting was to stop and think about what are we talking about when we are talking about well-being. Who’s well-being are we talking about? Is there suchContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 3: Developing teachers’ well-being skills”
Group work seems to be the key to many problems related to teaching. Students are put in groups to make teaching in courses with a large…
It is not easy to find a meaningful, coherent, and consistent thought on networked collaborative learning that finds agreement with what I expressed in my previous blog BP2 on Sharing and Openness. I indeed mentioned a sort of encouragement in sharing learning and teaching material in my field of expertise, also due to the lack […]
For the second topic of the course we are thinking about students, their well-being and how to support them to develop their well-being skills. This is maybe the most familiar topic of all these three. Not in a sense that I would have the solutions and answers to all the issues this important topic raisesContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 2: Supporting the development of students’ well-being skills”
I am working in civil engineering education and research and within this field in a small area concerning highway engineering. That means road, street, materials. etc. I am highlighting this as my field of expertise is almost a niche with all the consequences associated with it, also in teaching and learning. As a teacher (and […]
In the field of the Arts openness concerning authorship and copyright of artworks is an ongoing discussion. A visual artist, let’s say a…
As the first topic of the course we got presented the following scenario: “I have just signed up to do an online course and I am excited to be there. But I have little experience of online courses and it feels really challenging to get started to connect and find my way with all these […]
As a trained sculptor I am working from time to time, lets say every forth year, with video art. I am working without a production team….