#ONL201- Topic 5Joining ONL201 is one of the best decisions I have taken in the recent past. It is not often that such an opportunity comes along, and time could not have been more appropriate. I had a great learning time with my PBL group12. Regu…

#ONL201- Topic 4During COVID-19 outbreak  many of us turned to ‘emergency remote teaching and learning’. What would happen when we go back to campus in the next semester?  Going by the current situation, very likely, we will be converting our…

#ONL201- Topic 3I had spent most of the time during Topic 3 weeks reading the given readings :Are Online Learners Frustrated with Collaborative Learning Experiences?  [Capdeferro & Romero 2012] Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Gr…

I think that the ONL course has left me with more questions than answers, but it definitely has provided much food for thought. For one thing, it has raised in my mind the need to think very consciously and critically about how to create a learning com…

There were two questions we asked in our PBL group as we discussed the topic of blended learning. The first was how we could design face-to-face and online activities in a blended learning environment so that they are congruent. The second was about th…

The question of what it means to form a community is one that is sometimes taken for granted when it comes to learning spaces and experiences, but in a public speaking course that I teach, it has been a central question. In this post, I talk about how …

We had our final meeting and thought to write out our appreciation to our group facilitators on Padlet. For a few of us in the group, Padlet was an entirely new tool which we learnt about during ONL201. We experimented with it and got used to using it over the course of the 12 weeks,Continue reading “Final Thoughts…Seeing through the Eyes of the Learner”

#ONL201- Topic 2 I felt somewhat settled in the course by the start of  the topic on Open Learning . I knew what to expect in the PBL group discussion. I was behind schedule for the blog deliverable though L  Due to COVID, my teaching an…

#ONL201-Topic1   Is it important for Educators to be Digitally Literate? The first challenge I  faced to understand this topic and scenario was to find a definition of ‘’digital literacy’’. I found that the definition of digital lit…

#ONL201 It all began on Feb 24, 2020 ……This is my first blog post  ?I was really excited to start on this learning journey. It has been a few years since I formally joined a  course of this length. Further, this is a unique setting for me…