Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences…LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!!WHAT? WHAT FOR?My little monkey has started the journey. I don´t know why really…maybe just because h…
A course, a community, an approach
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences…LEARN! LEARN! LEARN!!WHAT? WHAT FOR?My little monkey has started the journey. I don´t know why really…maybe just because h…
My university, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) has grand ambitions for the future! SLU aim to double the number of students in the next upcoming years. If you knew that the number of students is only about 3900 you migh…
The start: Expectations, and some chaos When I signed up for ONL202, I already knew it was going to take some time. But I thought that having thirty something years of teaching experience, and several years in blended or online formats, I would be well prepared. I expected to learn a bit more about someFortsätt läsa “ONL: Shift Happens!”
The phone call Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep! – Hello, this is teacher XX speaking? – Hi there teacher, Corona here. I just want to let you know that from now on, you need to teach everything online. Just make sure you include all students, provide social, cognitive, and teaching presence (or learner-learner, learner-content, and learner-teacher interactions),Fortsätt läsa “Designing Online and Blended Learning: the story of a teacher”
Before the pandemic, I already knew the concept of “blending learning” from a pedagogical course called course design I attended in the beginning of this year. I really like the philosophy behind blending learning. It is useful to deep into the concept of blended learning. According to Garrison & Vaughan (2008), definition of blended learningContinue reading “Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning”
Topic 4 was about “Design for online and blended learning” and the scenario was very much relevant for the current situation with a pandemic going on, where everyone has more or less been “forced” to move their teaching online. With limited time to do so and no previous planning for this, it has many timesFortsätt läsa “Teaching is not about a “one-man” show”
The third topic centered around how to create learning communities and foster collaboration. We spent quite some time discussing what precisely a community is, and how this differs from say a network. Briefly, one could say that in the former, you “coo…
Topic 3 was about Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. We all have been there- taking part of a group work where communication halted. With social loafers that just want to hitchhike along not putting any effort into the work, or with a dominant person taking charge and decides pretty much everything themselves. Or, perhapsFortsätt läsa “Building trust”
I might be a little prejudiced as this has been my preferred way of teaching in the past months – since the Covid-19 pandemic forced us to switch to online learning- however learning and teaching in a group, has major benefits when compared to the traditional way of teaching. Working in a team broadens yourContinue reading “Learning in communities: dynamic and powerful”
In the context of Community of Inquiry we have learnt about the importance of establishing social presence in a course to ensure group cohesion and free communication as well as a generally safe and comfortable environment for sharing and testing out ideas [1] and having an overall good discussion climate. One theory says that itFortsätt läsa “The dark side of social presence”
As a person with my head in the stiff natural sciences I can sometimes find text and wording about pedagogic theories difficult to understand. There are so many sentences explaining the same thing! At least that is how I perceive it. So I often h…
For the second topic, Victor and I were in charge. The topic was how to create open material, what are the obstacles, and more importantly what are the benefits. This was an interesting topic, and our group had many interesting and heated discussions o…