#ONL191 – Page 13 – Open Networked Learning

Design for online and blended learning

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Miriam Bak McKenna

While Topic 4 unfortunately coincided with the easter break and I wasn’t able to attend the online meetings, I really enjoyed utilising the resources and learning more about online and blended learning as a concept. At the core of blended learning is the idea of taking elements from traditional ‘face to face’ learning and combining it … Continue reading Design for online and blended learning

Online and Blended learning

Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Mehwish Jabeen Bhatti

I have been relating this topic to my recent involvement with an online course, which I am developing myself, it’s a very short course based on 4 weeks, one meeting per week and asynchronous work on facebook and whatsapp. While designing the course th…

Fruitful Journey

Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Mehwish Jabeen Bhatti

ONL gave me an opportunity to learn quite a lot of stuff. In the beginning it was bit hard to go around the new website, but it was god that we had first week to know how things worked. The best thing I found was strong facilitation that got us togeth…

Compassion foster learning

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Sarah Hagström

So time flies, and the last week of topic 4 came and went. I was spending Easter holiday and being out of office, both physically and mentally. I couldn’t attend all group meetings, the webinar nor the Tweet chat this time. I neither had the time answering the survey before the webinar. I can honestly … Continue reading Compassion foster learning →

Reflecting on topic 5 – this part of the journey ends…

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Judy Botha

So we’ve come to the final week of ONL and it’s time to reflect on the journey. Exactly what I’m going to take out of this from a professional perspective and how I’ m going to apply what I’ve learned to my job, I have yet to contemplate and determine. I’ve definitely learnt, that’s for … Continue reading Reflecting on topic 5 – this part of the journey ends… →

Presence and persona

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Elisabeth Öhman

The main reason why I was eager to participate in the ONL191-course was that I wanted to find reasons and tools for turning some of my classroom teaching into online parts. Therefore, I was looking forward to Topic 4 – a chance to dig into, ponder and mould a model for blended learning. First we … Fortsätt läsa Presence and persona

Reflections on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Clive Whaits

Background Information. Primarily I am, by profession, an electronic engineer and am not an educationist but yet I am intricately involved in education. That is, I have not specifically studied a bachelors degree in education but have been educating electrical engineering students over the past three decades (1988 to date). What I have studied is … Continue reading Reflections on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning →

Breaking out of Panopticon

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Levan Tsagareli

Photo by Jean-Guy Nakars on Unsplash While reflecting on openness in education I came to think of panopticon, a special type of prison building that is used as a metaphor for disciplinary mechanisms ruling modern society. Due to its circular structure with an inspection tower in the middle the prisoners permanently feel themselves being observed. … Continue reading Breaking out of Panopticon

The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity

Posted on May 4, 2019 by James Brunton

Topic 4 for the ONL191 course focuses on how to support and design for learning, with a particular emphasis on accounting for emotional presence (in the context of the Community of Inquiry framework) in learning design. My problem based learning group decided to focus on an Empathy Map learning design exercise that would be used early … Continue reading The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity →

Tuning intuition in online teaching

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Elizabeth Blackburn

For our group work this time round, we prepared a mock syllabus for a course on Online Collaborative Writing, peppered with roll-over points describing the thinking behind our choices, using a tool called Thinglink. This helped to concentrate our thoughts on underlying design issues, which have been laid out clearly by my colleague Sebastian Schwede. […]

Personal learning networks

Posted on May 3, 2019April 16, 2020 by Sara Ihlman

In Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Groups in an Online Environment the authors mention the theory of connectivism proposed by Siemens in 2005. This perspective describes my own learning experience for the last ten years perfectly. Let me expl…

Collaborative learning

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Feroza Bhyat

Topic 3 #onl This topic was all about online collaboration. We discussed our personal experience in the group, our challenges, frustration and enjoyment. On a personal level, having missed two meetings I found myself somewhat confused. Frustration and confusion are some of the contributing factors to online learning and collaborative learning. My focus for this … Continue reading Collaborative learning