Are we all fine???? Covid 19 has forced us all to move our communication online.  We are all working hard during lockdown trying to keep the students on track, to shift to online learning within a short space of time. Technology is there, bu…

 During this session we shared our ideas and experiences of online and blended learning, especially during 2020 with the Covid 19 pandemic.  All members in the group mentioned the change and transition for Face-to-Face classes to online class…

 Richard E. West & Gregory S. Williams, defines the characteristics of a learning community as:   I will try to operationalise a learning community according to the four characteristics that serve as the boundaries for defining a communi…

 In our ONL group we discussed all the different platforms where we can share our knowledge. Where we can make the knowledge available to our students. Is it really that easy, or are there some rules and regulations?   I was really interested…

 How can we define this and how do we promote this in our students? Calvani, Cartelli, Fini and Ranieri (2008) define digital literacy as an umbrella framework of several complex and integrated literacies, and this includes skills, knowledge, ethi…

It is not a simple task to put all the lessons learned through this ONL course into a blog post, but this one will attempt to explain my experience through the process of the last 12 weeks. ONL started for me a little differently as most others.  It was recommended to me through work, andContinue reading “Topic 5: Lessons Learnt – Future Practice”

We have reached the end of the road for ONL, and we are now wrapping up the final strands of the course, as well the final embers of year 2020. 2021 will be the year where we apply some of the new disciplines and tools learned this year into a “brave new world” of uncertainty […]

The idea of online/blended learning was a new concept to me as an educator when it was introduced due to Covid-19, although I had been exposed to online learning as a learner myself through various platforms, the side of an educator was a complete foreign concept. So, moving from a classroom, face-to-face environment to anContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection”

Deliverable 4 was about putting together an agenda of sorts that would take a brick and mortar based course online. The Topic was on hate Crime, and though I found some areas of the agenda confusing, it all seemed to work out in the end. this was designed and presented by our leaders using Prezzie. […]

So Topic 3 was about collaboration vs cooperation, and there were some good takeaways for this topic. The Initial idea behind the unit was to design a course on mining, but this got a little complicated. Who would have thought that digging holes and blowing up things in the ground was that complex… but yep….. […]

According to the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University:  “Learning communities provide a space and a structure for people to align around a shared goal. Effective communities are both aspirational and practical. They connect people, organizations, and systems that are eager to learn and work across boundaries, all the while holding members accountable to aContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”

Topic 2: Open Learning — Sharing and OpennessThis topic was a bit of a challenging one for me as the term “open learning” seems to have many different meanings and interpretations. So during the first week of this, I have to admit I was a bit quiet dur…