#goodgeneration

Just as I am writing this blogpost I am attending the 31st Annual EAIE Conference in Helsinki, Finnland. The title of this year`s event is “encompassing all voices” and this was also what the Opening Plenary was about. We are more than 6000 people attending the Conference and the key note speaker, Simon Anholt, implored […]

Lessons learned – future practice

I have learned a lot during these weeks of exchanges, change of perspective and being a learner again – which I am doing quite often. However, being aware, that it is important to change on and on the perspective and that is very enriching, is actually a basic understanding for me as being a lecturer… Weiterlesen →

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Design for online and blended learning

I have to admit, that I am not that experienced in designing courses for online learning and as well don’t have that much experience in blended learning. Why? It has to do with somehow a lack of time to go deeply into these topics and develop myself material for blended learning. Maybe one would think… Weiterlesen →

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

As well mentioned in the introduction video it‘s a very broad and diverse understanding behind the word „Open“ – I like a lot how the multiple perspectives are explained and that in the end each of us has in some perspective a similar understanding, which brings us together, and of course some differences which I… Weiterlesen →

Digital Literacy

It took me some time to get into this Blog – or better to say, to set it up. I used to have a blog many years ago, at that time it was via Blogger.com, which was really easy to set up and you were directly into blogging. This time it took me quite a… Weiterlesen →

Topic 3, Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

CC by Alexandra Wirth How and where does collaboration take place in the PBL ? Does it matter whether it takes place online or in class? I have been involved with problem-based learning PBL for more than 20 years. On the one hand as a didactic concept, on the other hand as a method. I … Weiterlesen Topic 3, Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Topic 2, Open learning, sharing & openness

  http://www.pixabay.com   “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson What does OPEN mean? In his TEDxNYED on Youtube (2010), David Wiley explains quite simply and easily what openness means. It defines open as … Weiterlesen Topic 2, Open learning, sharing & openness

Topic 1, Online participation & digital literacies – on the way to the top!

The first 4 weeks with Getting Started, Connecting and the editing of Topic 1 Digital literacie and online participation are over. For my first reflection in my blog, I came up with several theories which might have been used as a basis. The five-stage model by Gilly Salmon would have been interesting, the problem-based learning … Weiterlesen Topic 1, Online participation & digital literacies – on the way to the top!