Edi and Online&Blended Learning

Posted on by Eduard Enoiu

My own experiences. In the last five years, I have started digitizing campus courses and developing new online courses to be exclusively given to industrial professionals. Working in this new setting involves a close interaction with students using digital tools and blended learning. Nowadays, teaching has evolved and teachers are adopting blended learning techniques throughout […]

Reflections about open learning

Posted on by Achref Bachouch

Hello to all, these are my reflections about topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness. Openness and sharing in learning are two important factors that we need toconsider, especially today with our more and more open and networked society. But how do we define openness? In [1], it is stated that the Open Education […]

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Collaborate or Cooperate, whichever is best for language learning?

Posted on by Marwa Amri

When reading the scenario for this topic, the first thing that came to my mind was the extent to which I am trasnparent in explaining to my students the difference between these two working formats. First things first, the two verbs “to collaborate” and “to cooperate” are often used interchangeably to mean people working jointly […]

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Teachers and students: all learners!

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

In this post, I’m going to investigate whether the exercise sessions in one of my courses can be considered as collaborative learning experiences or not. In the ocean of possible definitions of collaborative learning, I choose the following definition, or better, explanation of collaborative learning: “students work together in small groups toward a common goal. […]

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Support for engagement

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

In this post, I write about how the support a teacher may give to students is a valuable way to promote engagement in the course and contribute to collaborative learning. When I think to support, the first thing that comes to my mind is “answering to questions”. But support can be many different things and […]

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Challenges in Collaborative Learning

Posted on by Eduard Enoiu

I reflected quite a lot on the frustrations of both teachers and students in online collaborative learning. I started by reading quite an interesting paper [1] that outlined some of these issues: Even if some of these issues seem generic enough to be applied to any collaborative learning tasks, I think many of the challenges […]

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Harvesting

Posted on by Michela Cozza

The journey through Theme 3 was tremendously rich (knowledge-wise), strenuous (I was one of the moderators), and (emotionally) intense….

Pedagogy comes first!

Posted on by Marwa Amri

Technology has become an indispensable tool in education. Its use transcends those learning platforms that organize the teaching content and is now manifested in many digital resources, such as games, apps, learning channels, etc. All of these and many are often associated with “revolutionized and progressive education”. A quick look at any university platform, the […]

Openness Ltd.

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

Among the multiple interpretations of openness, such as generosity, free access, availability, given during Maha Bali’s webinar [5], I like very much openness as “the will to share” and the fact that “the will to share” is independent if it occurs online or face-to-face. I like this definition because teaching specifically is, in my opinion, […]