Open networks and totalitarianism

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led many of us to consider the conditions under which ideas may be disseminated and expressed. Putin’s government has shown that in order to carry out operations such as the war against Ukraine, popular opinion needs to be controlled. And thus also what ideas and ideas may appear in public […]

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Responding to new digital literacy challenges

My journey in the digital age has undergone an interesting transformation, shaped by the technological developments. With the omnipresence of digital technology, we are digitally involved in everything we do. The connected world we live in brings many benefits and we want to embrace all these benefits without the risks of course. The good news […]

Introduction – reflections

Really exciting that this course is getting started. I’m looking forward to learning more about digital learning and develop my own use of teaching resources online. As often the case, it’s a bit hard now in the beginning to overlook all the activities and tasks of the course. I’ll guess it will be clearer when […]

Welcome to my blog

Hello, my name is Anna-Sofia Preece. I work at the Public Health department at Karlstad University, Sweden. My research field is environmental exposures and effects on children’s health and development. The research I have done sofar has been wit…

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Topic 5: The future of learning

I mentioned earlier the HarvardX course I studied last year, it actually became a part of this course as well. It was the Leaders of Learning, including the Modes of Learning from Prof. Elmore. This course put a nice framework to different kinds of learning, and also looking into the future, actually slighly foreboding the […]

Topic 4: Blended/hybrid learning environments

In this topic we had a great deal of discussions over how to design modules of blended learning, focusing on the students experience. Some teaching is of course best teached face to face, and must remain like this. Discussions among people who dont know or trust each other for instance. But some parts actually work […]

Topic 3: Engaging in Collaborations

As teaching has been conducted online last year, most teachers have been asking themselves: “How do I engage the students?” and “How can I make the collaborate online?” This is a very hard topic, and many teachers have worked hard on this, with divided results on most cases. Our dicussions in the group where of […]