“I have just signed up to do an online course and I am excited to be there. But I have little experience with online courses and it feels really challenging to get started to connect and find my way with all these new sites and tools. I guess that other participants will be more experienced … Continue reading Battling to blog →

“A personal learning network (PLN) is a group of colleagues, mentors, and professionals that you connect with to enhance your learning and take charge of your own professional development” Elizabeth Trach, Schoology Exchange The quote above resonated with me as it speaks to the autonomy you have in creating your learning networks. They are personal and drivenContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

I found this week’s task fun because we used a podcast to inform others about collaborative learning. Prior to covid, I purely lectured face to face using some case studies to assist learning. My practice has changed significantly where I lecture online and had to adopt gameification, quizzes, online chats, forums and activities to engageContinue reading “Topic 3: Collaborative Learning”

One may take the concept of Openness for granted. For me openness means access to information, resources that are available. There might be a argument between capitalism (profit) VS sharing information with others. In my country, South Africa, I see a a huge rich poor divide because many students do not have access to purchasingContinue reading “Topic 2 : Openness and sharing”

The idea of open learning and sharing knowledge appeals greatly to me. Education really is something that can change your life but is out of reach for a lot of individuals. Open education resources could change that. But is “open” really open? Stephen Downes stated that an open learning environment has four key principles; autonomy,Continue reading “Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

I joined the ONL experience and I was both anxious and excited to learn from peers across the globe. I have had a challenging experience where I have experienced self-doubt due to having to puzzle together what has taken place in the Tuesday evening sessions and using a different approach to investigate the topic. IContinue reading “Topic 1: Digital Literacies Reflection”

What does being literate in an online world mean? Working in an environment where we put all our learning content online in a variety of formats to cater for student learning preferences might cause one to assume that we know our learners well. But what if we don’t? When I was watching David White’s videosContinue reading “Topic 1: Digital Literacies”

The time has come and our first connecting week has kicked off. We met our facilitators, our peers and our group members. Intimidation is a factor. I feel like I am but a mere diploma lecturer in a sea of established researchers and professors and course creators. But my excitement also sets in as I … Continue reading The first step, the difficult question →

Thank you for reading my blog. I am a student, educationalist, mother, wife, friend, colleague who is interested in how we space our own and our communities future through continuous learning. As I post my own learnings and thoughts, I welcome comments to expand, clarify and challenge my own thinking. #futureofeducation #learntolearn

What us Collaborative learning and what is Cooperative Learning? Often one can confuse the two, but believe me there are distinctive differences. What is Cooperative Learning?– A group of students work together on a structured activity, where the workload is split equally amongst the group members and each is responsible for their work. The groupContinue reading “Collaborative Learning”