http://untblendedlearning.weebly.com/conclusion.html To begin this blog post, when I think of blended learning I often think of a blender and putting ingredi…

When I started the ONL course it was with mixed emotions, because I did not know what to expect from the course and neither did I know what was expected from me. I felt a bit overwhelmed as I was now moving out of my comfort zone and being introduced to all these new digitalContinue reading “My experience with ONL 192”

How is Learning in Communities defined? According to Riel & Fulton (2001: 519),.” A community of practice is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic or area as well as a particular way of talking about the phenomena, tools, and sense-making approaches for building their collaborative knowledge with a setContinue reading “Learning in Communities”

A personal learning network (PLN) is your network, which can be as simple as following a group of educators on Twitter, networks are created around the learners own context. Can situate within a multitude of tools so as to access different resources, people and ideas, it is openly networked and there is easy entry whereContinue reading “Networked collaborative learning”

I had to lead this topic and I wasn’t ready but the more I read the literature and researched, it became easier to grasp. My job was to lead the group discussions and try to get everyone involved, everyone had their own views and perspectives but the most prevalent view that we agreed on wasContinue reading “Open education and learning”

When reading up on the topic “Openness in Learning”, I found that there were so many resources available for both the student and the lecturer. John, Thavavel, Jayaraj, Muthukumar and Jeevanandam  (2016) so aptly defines the topic that open education is teaching and learning material that can be  used and shared by anyone without cost.Continue reading “Open Education”