Design for online and blended learning – Topic 4 Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 by Marcus Stensmyr The fourth topic concerned how to set up a blended learning environment and foster a community of inquiry. Blended learning, i.e. the mix of online and in-class activities, offers opportunities as well as challenges. Creating a sense of community in an…
The Trampoline 2020-12-07 13:25:00 Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 by Hans Hovenberg Presence”to be where you are expected to be”Why is Presence so important? Why do we want Presence?A good thing with “presence” in a group, working together, is that you will, at least ruffly, respond to the same stimuli, same tasks and same questi…
Topic 5: Look into the future (of my course) Posted on December 6, 2020 by Hui Zhao What suggestions do you have (activities) for development of eLearning in your own teaching or context? As I reflected on the Topic 4, I think I would consider to use some technological tools for developing the community of inquiry in my own course. Cleveland-Innes, M. & Wilton, D. (2018) suggest that the purposeful inquiry isContinue reading “Topic 5: Look into the future (of my course)”
The journey of ONL202 Posted on December 4, 2020 by Therese Bengtsson When first starting the ONL202 course, I was first a bit terrified of the length and magnitude of work to put into it. How should I be able to balance work and the course workload at the same time? I will not say it has not taken a lot of time, it…
The Trampoline 2020-12-04 13:43:00 Posted on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Hans Hovenberg 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…
Catching the white whale Posted on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 by Cecilia Hammenhag 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…
ONL: Shift Happens! Posted on December 3, 2020 by Nicolette Karst 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!”
Designing Online and Blended Learning: the story of a teacher Posted on December 2, 2020 by Nicolette Karst 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”
Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning Posted on December 2, 2020 by Hui Zhao 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”
Teaching is not about a “one-man” show Posted on November 30, 2020 by Therese Bengtsson 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”
Learning communities – Topic 3 Posted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 by Marcus Stensmyr 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…
Building trust Posted on November 30, 2020 by Therese Bengtsson 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”
