The most important thing that I have learnt from this course is how important is socializing and engagement in a learning environment. I have been lucky to be a member of a fantastic group where I felt we were really collaborating since the end of the first topic. It was amazing when we were completingContinue reading “Lessons learnt – future practice”

This topic has been most favorite for me due to interesting discussions we had in the group on how to engage students. I felt I have been growing quite a lot in terms of knowledge acquired both by the literature and related events but mostly by my group members who have much more experience thanContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning”

Every time I am speaking about the ONL course I tend to say “online” as ONL easily leads to thinking “online”. And that was also my expectation, to learn more about how to teach online. But the most important things that I have learnt are the O and N, that is “open” and “networked”, whichContinue reading “ONL is not “online”, open and networked are the main take-aways”

Presence is something I have been looking at in my own research on remote leadership. What many researchers have noticed is the challenge in building trust, energy and focus in online meetings. The usual argument is that there are “no bodies” in virtual meetings and that the sensorial cues are fewer. In our research weContinue reading “Making room for learning”

Looking at this ONL experience, in particular the group activities, I agree with the results of the study conducted by Capdeferro and Romero [1] on how to avoid frustration in on-line learning environments that is equivalent on how to promote collaboration (since one of the main reasons of frustration is the lack of collaboration). IContinue reading “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”