Twelve weeks of online meetings are behind me now. What is the outcome? Here are some key terms: many discussions, different thoughts, different ideas, different solutions, new perspectives, new digital tools, more confidence in the digital world, not alone in the digital world and its challenges, meeting new colleagues (unfortunately only online), development in theContinue reading “Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

For the past two weeks we talked about the issue (or challenge or opportunity) of designing an online or blended course, bearing in mind important factors to consider, especially social presence, cognitive presence and teaching presence. In addition, another topic has strongly influenced our discussions, emotions. Emotions The importance of emotions on teachers´ and learners´Continue reading “Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning”

Sunday evening after a busy week with lectures, research activities and discussions with students. Many impressions and new thoughts to reflect. Topic 3 also opens up the possibility of thinking about new perspectives (in this case “networked collaborative learning”) and thereby expanding your own perspective. to be continued… 🙂

Very exciting topic. It affects both, teachers and learners. Everyone can benefit from it, but everyone must be willing to share. And maybe that’s the sticking point … Sharing and openness The idea of sharing my materials openly for online courses has set a defense mechanism in my mind. I’ve spent much much time inContinue reading “Topic 2: open learning – sharing and openness”

Sitting with a nice glass of red wine and thinking about the past few weeks of Open Networked Learning. Many new impressions, nice new colleagues in the online sessions, many hurdles (or challenges) to solve… … but it is a fascinating journey with so many new impressions, ideas and possibilities. Topic 1: Online participation andContinue reading “Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies”