Successful collaboration online is not “just” happening. This is a learning from my own experience at different points of time on my “educational journey” but also a reflection made from literature that I read. I want to focus on how collaborations can be initiated and teams developed. It is so amazing to be able to… Fortsätt läsa Learning… to collaborate

Digital stickball and smalltalk? We are now into topic 4. Designing blended learning. How to do it in the best way? At my institution I will say we have maybe not extensive, but quite some experience of teaching online classes. For several years we for our pharmacy students ran parallell courses, with the same curriculum, … Fortsätt läsa “Kickstart of Topic 4”

Time to make a blog-friendly summary of topic 3: Learning in communities- networked collaborative learning. This time I will try to make a slightly shorter blogpost. This topic, for me, was a bit easier to grasp compared to topic 2. As a nursing educator I have quite some experience of networking as we do a … Fortsätt läsa “Topic 3- networked collaborative learning”

During the courses I teach, within media and communication science, the students often work in groups. One reason for this is that people in the media industry often works in different project groups. In marketing, a project can consist of a number of different people with different skills that collaborate (for example, an art director,… Fortsätt läsa Topic 3: Collaboration

Struggling to get a grasp.. Ok, a blog post about topic 2.. I realize that this will be a bit difficult for me to compose. I have met several ONL participants the recent week which have said that in their opinion, topic 2 was more tangible and easier for them to approach compared to topic … Fortsätt läsa “A web of thoughts- Reflections of topic 2”

March 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has shocked the world, and in Sweden, schools are beginning to move from the physical classrooms to digital learning environments. I am told to cancel all physical meetings at work, and to only schedule online teaching with my university students. Keep an open mind, we’re told – find new solutions,… Continue reading Maybe next year

There are many perspectives of openness, and the concept often relates to connectivity and free access to material when we discuss openness in the virtual space. An open access learning community often gives acessibility to material and knowledge without charge, and there are benefits from learning together in online collaboration. There is also a sense… Continue reading Openness

We are becoming more and more accustomed to digital tools being a part of our everyday lives. Digitization entails both risks and opportunities. One such opportunity is open courses. The population is increasing and there is a growing need for education. One benefit of using open courses can, for example, be an opportunity for poor… Fortsätt läsa Topic 2 – Open courses

The first topic is online participation and digital literacies. I think it is important for people to have the necessary skills to be able to participate in the more and more digitalised society. There can be many reasons why it can be difficult to participate in the various digital arenas. There may be fears and… Fortsätt läsa First topic for the ONL course