The online teaching has one strong possibility in teaching: Openness. For me, when the pandemic hit, already the second week I was inscribed in several online courses, including one very interesting course on leadership in teaching environments from Harvard University. It was actually for HarvardX, the platform for MOOC, Massive Open Online Courses, where thousans […]

The pandemic put all our teaching online for a prolonged time. This enormous change of education put a thousands of challenges, and made teachers all over the globe to rethink their ways of teaching. Now, one and a half year later, all teachers have actually done it. We did put teaching in online setting, for […]

The most fulfilling part of this course has been to hear from other peoples’ diverse perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education from different subjects and different…

The majority of the courses that I teach are offered as both campus and distance courses. The standard for dealing with these courses in my department has been…

All of the courses I teach at university, in English, linguistics, academic writing, and related subjects, involve a lot of group work. I believe that there is great…

During topic 3 we were reflecting on how we can make students learning improve using group work and collaboration assignment. I have to say that “my” group is reallt creative and during the first meetings we came up with a lot of different ideas and angels on the topic. To try and struvture the contributions […]

Life is full of meetings with new people and it always feels a bit sad when you split up and continue in life. It is amazing how technology makes it possible to form distributed groups and will I honestly miss my PBL group and our weekly meetings. During out last week we were asked to […]

The type of reflections that was required for the ONL course have been quite different from my disorganized and ad-hoc reflections that I normally make. In ordinary cases, I constantly reflect on my teaching and development of courses. When I talk to colleagues, when I watch documentaries, scroll on social media or before, during and […]

After several weeks of learning collaboratively in the PBL group, the course has finally come to an end. The ride was demanding, time-consuming, and required considerable effort. Nevertheless, the knowledge and experience obtained are invaluable and priceless. The activities and discussions were generally well organized. I admired the level of engagement and diversity of the […]

December, 10, 2021 I think the overall big lesson learnt from this course is the new perspectives on the balance between content and process in learning activities. It’s perhaps not that I have understood what is the right balance but rather that it has enhanced my awareness of this balance and perhaps that I have […]

December, 10, 2021 I think the overall big lesson learnt from this course is the new perspectives on the balance between content and process in learning activities. It’s perhaps not that I have understood what is the right balance but rather that it has enhanced my awareness of this balance and perhaps that I have […]

From many positions it would seem that Sweden has a rather unrestrictive and ‘open’ higher education system. There are no tuition fees, and there are various pathways into…