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ONL191 – at the end of the road

Photo by Carolina Pimenta on UnsplashThe last 12 weeks of the ONL191 course proved to be more demanding than I expected, and they taught me that an online course can be as time intensive as a regular course, in some aspects even more so – to collaborat…

Lessons learned – ONL191

The #ONL191 course has come to an end, and we have been asked to reflect on what we have learned, and what we will do differently in the future, as a result of the course. What have I learned? I have seen that online-only courses can work, and I have tried to identify the areas […]

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Tuning intuition in online teaching

For our group work this time round, we prepared a mock syllabus for a course on Online Collaborative Writing, peppered with roll-over points describing the thinking behind our choices, using a tool called Thinglink.  This helped to concentrate our thoughts on underlying design issues, which have been laid out clearly by my colleague Sebastian Schwede. […]

ONL 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

I did not have specific expectations on what to learn during the ONL course, but I did expect that it would make me reflect more on my teaching. And this it did indeed. The most important thing it taught me are new concepts around which to frame my tea…

ONL 4 – Blended and online learning

My courses follow a rather straight forward template. They consist of frontal 90 minute lectures, which contain me writing on the blackboard, interaction with the students, small exercises for them to do during the lecture and weekly mandatory assignme…

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Online fika

The third topic in #ONL191 is concerned with learning in communities, obviously with the focus on the networked aspect.  There is a lot of interesting evidence for the advantages of online working, most interestingly to me how this can promote higher-order thinking, meaning that students have more time to reflect and develop their ideas.  A […]