To realize a collaborative learning spirit there must be a shared understanding of the learning situation among learners and their teachers and clear goal setting for both sides. Learners are required to give their best in terms of action and effort to be invested to accomplish the learning task and solve problems together as a … Continue reading ONL91-Grp9 – My Reflections on Topic 3: Becoming Part of Collaborative Learning Community!

Open Education (OE) gives opportunities and empowers both students and teachers to participate freely, actively and in democratic ways throughout the educational/learning process. Open education is interpreted to mean “open admission, open as free education, open educational resources and open educational practices” (Cronin 2017, pg. 16). In practicing OE, both students and their teachers can … Continue reading My Reflections on Topic 2: Making Sense of Open Education

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Greetings my readers. Welcome to my third blog post on this my ONL191 journey. This blog post is my reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. Introduction Collaborate is a verb which means to work jointly on an activity or project. Collaborative learning (a key term in Topic 3) is an … Continue reading Reflections on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning →

So this sums up a very helpful course about online collaborative learning! I found many aspects from the course very useful for my own work, in both teaching and for collaborative research work. Three take-aways thus far are: 1) The vast diversity…

The topic for this week, was on  how to support and design for learning. I very much enjoyed the very hands-on approach of this topic, the clarification of different learning types and how they link to a diversity of teaching methods. I espec…

This week gave us an introduction to how online communities learn, different phases and challenges to online collaboration, and different ways to address these. I found this topic not only interesting, but also timely in the development of our own inte…