In my final reflection blogpost, I want to share my thoughts on a popular institution-wide initiative – the adoption of blended learning, which has gained momentum due to the need for continued teaching & learning during this Pandemic. Most faculty members would agree that blended learning is an effective approach to learning that combines the […]

I have the privilege of learning with a diverse group of colleagues with a wealth of knowledge and skills in TEL. My Group 6 teammates taught me lots of things, some of which were applied in my own lessons with teaching assistants. I found the conversations we had every week and the online resources that […]

These are belated blogposts. I guess, it’s better late than never. One good thing perhaps is that I have the chance to apply some of the ideas taught and discussed in our ONL group sessions and to reflect a bit more on these experiences. Online participation and digital literacies have become hot topics when the […]

I want to include the group I journeyed with in this final summary because participation in the course has been made special and unique because of the ways we analyzed the case studies, chose areas of foci, and developed our ideas. It has been an experiential journey through the various stages of group formation an … Continue reading Musings at the end of ONL with PBL08

      ONL had suggested that I attempt this blog by answering the following five questions.  I will begin each of these questions with a popular quote, just as I have made the quote by Michelangelo as the title of this blog.&nb…

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.  – Malcolm X Humanity has always wondered what the future will be like. In the same vein, I have ventured to foretell what the education sys…

As the course comes to an end, it is time to look back to what I have learnt, and how I can bring them forward into my practice.A deep dive into teaching strategiesBeing new to teaching, this course gave me the opportunity to not just interact and lear…

ONL212 has come to an end! What I have really appreciated about ONL is that this course addresses questions beyond digitalization and the use of digital tools. I found myself engaging with more fundamental questions of pedagogy: Who am I as an educator? What are my own ideas about learning? How can I ensure that … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

I was unfamiliar with online tools and resources in the beginning of the ONL212 course. I had never used tools like miroboard or Lucidchart – in fact I did not even know about the ‘annotate’ feature in zoom, although …

Digital Literacies: Before and After  In this post I will like to take a light-hearted approach towards Digital Literacy.  My PBL group discussed many approaches and its consequences of becoming digitally literate.  Based on the first sc…