I’ve long been passionate about education. I come from a family of teachers and from the earliest time, I’ve wanted to be a teacher. My mom and aunt – who were teachers – used to bring me to their schools so I could watch them teach. My life changed course because of amazing teachers whenContinue reading “So this is me…”

Just warming up….

Not sure what will be coming in here, not yet anyway. Till then… ciao!

It is always exciting to enter a new learning community – or at least, to enter what will become a learning community through the efforts of its members to engage with one another and with the material. This week we connected online with the ONL …

The class was an interesting journey. I was very lucky to have a great group and amazing facilitators. We had meetings and interesting discussions, and I really liked how people were able to collaborate almost immediately. The FISh document helped a lot, and I think I will use this approach in some of my courses.Continue reading “Topic 5: Reflections”

Looking back on the last twelve weeks of coursework, I realized that this experience has been truly enriching and would have not been as rewarding without the help and guidance from our ONL course organisers, Alastair, Maria, Lars, and Lotta. I also want to acknowledge people from my own institution, NUS, who were also instrumentalContinue reading “12 weeks on: What have I learned?”

I must admit that among the five topics covered in our ONL course, this is the topic I struggled with the most. To be honest, it was taken up during our exam week and so I was only able to devote a minimum amount of time for this topic. Fortunately, all our discussions were recordedContinue reading “How to design an online course?”

It’s important to discuss the benefits of collaborative learning in creating a good collaborative environment. Based on the response of the participants in my group, sharing and fun are standout descriptions given as main benefits of collaborative learning. The ability to share ideas from a diverse group and learn something new from different perspectives areContinue reading “How do we create a good collaborative environment?”

In this last blog post for ONL192, I’ll begin by briefly explaining how we came up with our meme. I will then summarize the most significant ways in which the ONL course helped me. The image we had selected for our meme features 3 minion cartoon characters – one minion is pulling on a pieceContinue reading “We worked on the edge but it was worth it! (Topic 5)”

Topic 4 was especially beneficial for me for 2 main reasons. Firstly, it was a timely opportunity for me to reflect on my own efforts in recent years to promote collaboration amongst my own students with the help of blended learning. 2 years ago I started experimenting with online learning activities and, to my surprise,Continue reading “Wearing the learner’s hat: Viewing blended learning from a student’s perspective (Topic 4)”

My experience is on developing and conducting blended learning classes in Software Engineering. I did not have the opportunity to develop fully online classes, and my first participation in an online class is in ONL. Let’s start with a short definition of what I mean by blended learning: it is a combination of face-to-face andContinue reading “Topic 4: Online and Blended Learning”

My personal experience in online collaboration extends to using learning management systems, chat platforms and document sharing platforms (and email). These experiences have always been complemented by having face-to-face meetings from time to time. I used two major platforms to communicate for collaboration with my teaching assistants: WhatsApp and Slack. I find each of themContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”