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Over the past couple of months, I have seriously been rethinking my openness. I was principally in favor openness before this autumn, but I have not been too open myself. Over the years I have tried to be as open as possible to my students, gradually questioning why we keep things hidden and increase myContinue reading “Lessons learnt and future practice”

One of the main reasons for taking the ONL course was to gain confidence as a pedagogue. Earlier I had felt that although I can do well in my own teaching; I didn’t feel I had the language to express myself fully when talking about education with others. After these 12 weeks I think that … Fortsätt läsa Final thoughts about the ONL journey – and the impact of our digital tools

I feel like I am in the middle of a story and it’s impossible to tell what I have learnt through the ONL course right now—it’s only confusion. Honestly, this course has been challenging and quite frustrating at times. But also, challenging in a good way and inspiring. The design and software logistics of this … Continue reading Topic 5. Lesson learnt? →

The NMC 2019 Horizon Report states a need to ‘rethinking the practice of teaching’ in a soon to come future. Already in early 1980s the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said “Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be”, this much-repeated statement is often used to stress the need for technological … Continue reading Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning: working with resistance and queer failure. →

The key to understand the world is the ability to learn, this is at the core of human and as well non-human systems (such as artificial intelligence). Currently, automatic and intelligent systems are ubiquitous in everyday activities and can be seen as a form of algorithmic outsourcing, but also new forms of collaborative learning enabling … Continue reading Topic 3: Network of what? Human and non-human collaborative learning communities →

I have over the last 20 years tried to improve my skills in handling negative emotions in group work. Frustration and irritations are common and probably unavoidable. Conflicts occur, mainly as a result of not handling frustration and irritation. Åsa Nilsonne held a keynote lecture at the higher education pedagogic conference NU2018 about emotions inContinue reading “Thoughts converging”

Last week I got the opportunity to attend an open lecture about education. The lecturer was a professor in the science of physics, and he wanted to share his thoughts about knowledge and learning. His main message was that we have gotten to much dependent on the artefacts in our modern society. The lecturer meant … Fortsätt läsa Education for the century we live in

I have been struggling to finding the difference between online collaborative learning and on campus collaborative learning. Is there a difference? What is the difference? Brindley et al. (2009) examined the influence of grading on the participation in group work in an online course, without finding any effect. Instead they concluded that there are severalContinue reading “Collaborative learning online or offline?”

During the first week of Topic 3 about Collaboration our group talked about which subject to research. We talked about different ideas and seemed to agree on what was most interesting. At last our facilitator asked us to formulate our subject as a question. I said ”What are the pros and cons with group work?” … Fortsätt läsa Group work vs. Real collaboration

Media literacy, digital literacy, digital skills or competences (or even AI-literacy) – whatever you wish to call them, seems to be everyone’s favorite solution. But what is the problem these skills are a solution to? Maybe you have heard the PISA study – that is the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment. Every three years … Continue reading Skills for open learning →