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…

In this reflection, I will be focusing on the potential support teachers can provide to students to facilitate blended and hybrid learning. It is worth mentioning that blended learning provides an alternate approach to engage students via various learning experiences particularly for students with difficulties learning in a physical classroom. This mode of learning shifts […]

Last week we handed in Topic 4, Design for online and blended learning. My group did choose to focus on community building and how to get the students engaged in group work. One of our group members came up with an interesting article on community building: https://ctl.columbia.edu/resources-and-technology/teaching-with-technology/teaching-online/community-building/ From this article we got a lot of […]

In this reflection, I chose to focus on a practical case of online collaborative learning in my problem-based learning (PBL) group. Before attending this module, we mainly used the networked-based perspective in the PBL group. However, since attending the module on collaborative learning, we have adopted more of a collaborative learning approach than a networked […]

Even though the term blended learning is frequently used, there is ambiguity about what it actually means (Oliver and Trigwell 2005). Researchers have discussed the problems with such ambiguity of definitions Oliver and Trigwell 2005) while others have raised such ambiguity and the fact that it means different things to different people, as the untapped […]

Among my colleagues, I feel that there still is this discussion on what type of learning activities create the best opportunities for reaching the intended learning outcome. My personal reflection is that there are those that argue for a teacher focus where the teacher is the strongest voice in the classroom. In such cases, the […]

Are we assuming digital literacy these days? And is it fair to do so? In our course descriptions, we write that students need computers and wifi. That seems fair given the era we live in. But we do not write that they must possess some kind of digital literacy, that is assumed. And it seems […]

Upon completing two weeks of intense discussion and deliberation within my PBL group and upon reading the blogpost of other participants on open learning from a sharing and openness perspective, I decided to self-evaluate how my teaching practices contributed to open education.  I asked myself three fundamental questions; 1) What is openness? 2) What constitutes openness? […]

Are our old norms changing after the pandemic? Could it be that we were forced to move a bit from teacher centric to learning centric and that it therefore feels reasonable not to only have monologue lectures as standard teaching? Even though it is still the content focus and that it is an end result […]

A well needed week to catch up and analyze what we have done. Our previous topic was handed in less than a week ago, this time we used a padlet as the tool for our contribution. Our last topic “Open learning – sharing and openness” started by a scenario that we all read individually. When […]

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These days of being what we like to call connected, I quite often come back to the image of viewing the world from a lawn (lawn is actually not the right word here, rather a bundle of grass slightly higher than surrounding, in Swedish called ‘grästuva’). A Swedish author Harry Martinsson wrote a book titled […]