It no doubt that money can solve 98.99% of the problem we faced today. For instance, in order to curb load shedding, the country need 5 more power stations in order to supply enough energy and so on. However, the challenges that faced our people in our communities like teenage pregnancies, the drug use, the … Continue reading SOME OF OUR PROBLEMS NEED NO CAPITAL BUT STRONG LEADERSHIP
This is me …
A coach, a mentor, a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a niece, an adult educator, a learning designer, and a lifelong learner. Like many of you, I wear many hats, some comfortably nestled within one another, others fighting to take centre stage. Learning reclaimed its prime spot in my life some four years ago when I took the plunge into adult education. I …
Teaching through a screen (Part 2)
In the previous post, I discussed how the pandemic taught me to teach, to mentor and do research through my computer screen. This week, I decided to do a little further, and to make a short video of one of the trick I use with my science a lot, and which could be easily taught … Continue reading Teaching through a screen (Part 2)
Teaching through a screen
The Covid-19 pandemic has not been easy on us all. We had to protect ourselves and out loved-ones, we have lost some of them or have been separated for way too long! I feel extremely privileged. I am living in a country that has, in general, responded quickly and well to the pandemic. My direct … Continue reading Teaching through a screen
Creative Commons for Education
Google is to web search, as Kleenex is to facial tissue. In fact, having googled the answer myself, I found out that google, the verb, is a proper English term. It has been since 2006. according to this article on Wired.com. We appreciate the efficiency and accuracy of the Google algorithm to get us the resources we want. Next, we select the ones relevant to …
Multilingual co-teaching is time consuming but might be worth the time…
I continue my learning experience on ‘Internationalization‘ and ‘Language policies‘ through the pedagogical course ‘YA2 International and Collaborative Environment‘ provided to the personnel of the University of Helsinki. Our group-assignment this week was to write a blog on a topic of our choice, but related to language diversity. At the University of Helsinki, the official … Continue reading Multilingual co-teaching is time consuming but might be worth the time…
Teaching how to identify biases
As teachers we have the duties to provide our students with a learning environment that is a place of trust and excitement, curiosity and peace, where learning can be optimize, and where growth of knowledge can occur. Different aspects of our lives might affect our ability to learn. Pedagogical courses offered to University lecturers and … Continue reading Teaching how to identify biases
Internationalization of the curriculum
This fall I am joining a pedagogical course on International and Collaborative Environment at the University of Helsinki (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ya2internationalcollaborative/). The goal of the course is to give us a better understanding of the challenges of internationalization, and diversity in our institutions and our classrooms. We are gonna discuss diverse topics related to this theme through … Continue reading Internationalization of the curriculum
How do I design a written exam for my online course?
The current situation with the Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to adjust and adapt our teaching and examinations. Campus courses have been turned into online distance courses overnight. One issue that has been widely discussed and debated among the colleagues at University is: How do we design written examinations for online courses? Under normal …
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How do I hold an engaging online seminar?
As you know, there is a lot of learning through collaboration among students, however, collaboration can be a challenge in online courses. The question about how to get my students to join and engage in online seminars is something that I have been pondering over for some time. When I first started to give online …
The show goes on..:)
According to plan I should have been in Maputo now, busy lecturing and interacting with a group of students taking a course in Resource Assessment as part of a MSc programme in Environmental Engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. The current situation with both UEM and my home university Malardalen University in Sweden …
Open Pedagogy
The idea of open in higher education has multiple interpretations, and a considerable lack of clarity, partly due to the use of varied terms such as the Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Open education, Open lear…