Visitor or resident? So, based on the video above by David White of the University of Oxford and his model people can be classified as belonging to two groups: visitors and residents. Visitors… Continue reading →
A course, a community, an approach
Visitor or resident? So, based on the video above by David White of the University of Oxford and his model people can be classified as belonging to two groups: visitors and residents. Visitors… Continue reading →
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…
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 […]
I joined the Open Networked Learning Course because I wanted to hone my digital skills. Beforehand, I would always use Skype which caused so many problems that I would always choose meeting someone in person if possible. I heard about, but never used Padlet or other digital tools that would support collaborative/cooperative work online. Now, … Continue reading After the ONL journey
I joined the Open Networked Learning Course because I wanted to hone my digital skills. Beforehand, I would always use Skype which caused so many problems that I would always choose meeting someone in person if possible. I heard about, but never used Padlet or other digital tools that would support collaborative/cooperative work online. Now, … Continue reading After the ONL journey →
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. […]
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…
Photo by John Jackson on UnsplashThe fourth topic of the ONL191 course was devoted to designing learning process within online and blended environments. I was especially interested in the latter of the two. Throughout my education I was able to try out…
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…
cannot end well, especially in a collaborative context. Being emotional does not mean being impulsive, or pouring out our feelings on others without any filtering. But if we are suppressing our emotions in the collaborative context, it means that something is wrong, and if it’s not fixed, it will soon take its toll on the … Continue reading Suppressing your emotions…
cannot end well, especially in a collaborative context. Being emotional does not mean being impulsive, or pouring out our feelings on others without any filtering. But if we are suppressing our emotions in the collaborative context, it means that something is wrong, and if it’s not fixed, it will soon take its toll on the … Continue reading Suppressing your emotions… →
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 […]