I started my career as a lecturer 2009 with only in class courses. In 2015 I started recording a few of my lectures. I wasn’t used to it, and my students weren’t used to it either. Slowly I added more and more online. In 2017 90% of my classes were online and of course withContinue reading “Design for Online and Blended Learning”

We all want to eat that perfect meal or taste that delicious drink, and when it comes to teaching, we want to offer that perfect course where students learn and get new understanding, that changes their thinking. The problem is that we all have different tastes, and the same goes with learning, we learn inContinue reading “Thoughts on Blended learning”

(Topic 4) Flexibility is probably one of the most coveted properties of online and blended learning. With online learning, there has been a change in the roles of both teacher and students. In blended learning students are being offered to make choices between different assignments and materials When students get the feeling they can contributeContinue reading “Flexibility and feedback”

I have reflected partly on teaching during this course. So far the world of teaching is completely new to me, I only started in early February, and have thus not the privilege to be able to compare methods – because of COVID-19 everything happens online, at a distance. I have, however, some experience from lecturesContinue reading “To engage students in blended learning environments”

(Topic 3) According to Brindley, Blaschke and Walti1 one motivation for a student participating in the group is making individual success dependent of group success. In my view, participating in the group must be meaningful not only for the sake of passing a course successively. Group participation must add something to the learning experience: makeContinue reading “How to motivate students to participate in a group?”

We all know that everyone is different and we all learn in unique ways. What works for one student might not work for somebody else. We start school at around the age of 6, and with time we develop, usually without knowing it, our own learning strategies. I feel like I am a “traditional learner”.Continue reading “Learning in communities”

During the Open Network Learning-course we used Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the group assignments. We used the FISh (focus-investigate-share) document to guide our thinking. The topic leaders introduced us to the scenario at the beginning of the first group meeting. Discussions about our focus was carried out, after which everyone was investigating more aboutContinue reading “Collaborative Learning using PBL”

Learning through communities can happen, albeit not exclusively, in a learning environment. I say not exclusively, because I have experience of community-based learning, when the learning part was not the goal itself, but something that came along the way. I have a background in activism and while I know most people think of loud demonstrationsContinue reading “Learning in a community of practice”

(Topic 2) One of the Open Educational Practices presented by Bali, Cronin and Jhangiani (2020) is the open syllabus teaching process. In this process, the syllabus can be open to students to “comment or modify the contents”. As an information specialist, who teaches information retrieval to students in different subjects, this makes me interested. DespiteContinue reading “Open syllabus as an OEP”

I have lately been diving into the pros and cons about openness in education. To tell you the truth, even if I have been offering MOOCs for years, I never actually thought about it. Also I had never herd the term MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). Most of my students are degree students at theContinue reading “Sharing and Openness”

Sharing information should be, for an educator or a teacher, a normal thing to do. Even though how much information we share or how many students we educate, the information and knowledge will not disappear or vanish from ourselves. (Wiley.2010)Even though Dr. Wileys speech is from 2010, it is very needed today, as well. InContinue reading “Openness and sharing”

The first association for openness in today’s world is, at least for me, connected to digital means and access. Even though the technical requirements for digital equipment would be fulfilled, there is more needed to acquire digital literacy. According to Beetham and Sharpe (2010), apart from technological knowledge, digital skills also include skills and motivations.Continue reading “If digital literacy forms your personality”