These are my reflections on ONL201 course. In a period of 2.5 months this experience has been like a roller coaster experience. At the same time than I did the ONL course the pandemic disruption transformed the society and there has been a sudden explosive growth of the use of digital tools. At the beginning […]

I will share my experience in blended learning in a course I am involved in at the University of Linköping. I have been teacher since 2017 and course coordinator since 2018 in the course of Social Epidemiology in the Master Program in Medical Sciences. To teach to students the relevance of social determinants of health […]

I have learnt to appreciate the approach and philosophy found in problem-based learning (PBL) as a facilitator in face-to-face problem-based learning group at the Medical School of Linköping University. The PBL philosophy is inspired by Socrate’s “maïeutic” (from the Ancient Greek μαιευτικός (maieutikós) where the purpose was that the knowledge that emerges in the exchange […]

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the campus of many universities and schools in many countries have closed temporarily to slow the spread of the virus. These closures have impacted up to now over 89% of the world’s student population (i.e. 1.54 milliard students)(1). At Linköping university where I work, all teaching shifted suddenly […]

The last 2 weeks I have been immersed in a digital online environment and it was a new social experience. This has been a “learning by doing” experience and these are my reflections that allow me to be an “experiential learner” (Kolb). Being able to communicate and learn online with PBL in a group made […]

This week of ONL has passed and it has been fun to discover the ONL community and the world of virtual meeting and collaborative learning. We have connected both the online community and the PBL group. My first reflection is that I was amazed but the diversity of digital tools we have been using as […]