#ONL191 – Page 16 – Open Networked Learning

Opening up my own teaching and learning practice

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Scott Burnett

The issues of open learning for me seem to revolve around ownership – but also about accountability, and about the kind of communities we want to build. One of the things that seems very useful to me is opening up my practice to comment by other educators, and the potential use by educators and students … Fortsätt läsa Opening up my own teaching and learning practice

ONL 4 – Blended and online learning

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Philipp Birken

My courses follow a rather straight forward template. They consist of frontal 90 minute lectures, which contain me writing on the blackboard, interaction with the students, small exercises for them to do during the lecture and weekly mandatory assignme…

Topic 3 – Commitment, Interest & Enthusiasm: Essential Ingredients for Collaborative Learning?

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Wasif Afzal

So I have been thinking for few days what should I write on topic 3 on collaborative learning? As we discussed in our group meetings on Zoom, one of the success factors in a collaborative learning setting is commitment and interest. We all have been in such settings where the enthusiasm to learn and collaborate … Continue reading Topic 3 – Commitment, Interest & Enthusiasm: Essential Ingredients for Collaborative Learning? →

Let’s strive for an ecosystem of learning, shall we?

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Hafizah Osman

What is online learning? What about blended learning? How does one design for one, or the other? Are they interchangeable? How does a flipped classroom fit into the picture? So many questions. And so many more answers. In case you missed my earlier blogs, my foray into online and blended learning started just under two years ago. It has been a very steep learning curve, …

Let’s strive for an ecosystem of learning, shall we?

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Hafizah Osman

Topic 3 – Commitment, Interest & Enthusiasm: Essential Ingredients for Collaborative Learning?

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Wasif Afzal

Suppressing your emotions…

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Katarzyna Bobrowicz

cannot end well, especially in a collaborative context. Being emotional does not mean being impulsive, or pouring out our feelings on others without any filtering. But if we are suppressing our emotions in the collaborative context, it means that something is wrong, and if it’s not fixed, it will soon take its toll on the … Continue reading Suppressing your emotions… →

Topic 2: Open Learning, Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 29, 2019May 16, 2019 by Gamze Sökücü

Topic 2 has been eye opening for me. Why? Because I’ve started to understand what makes a MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) tick and what doesn’t. So far, I have participated in a lot of MOOCs, while I completed some, there were some left unfinished w…

Online fika

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Elizabeth Blackburn

The third topic in #ONL191 is concerned with learning in communities, obviously with the focus on the networked aspect. There is a lot of interesting evidence for the advantages of online working, most interestingly to me how this can promote higher-order thinking, meaning that students have more time to reflect and develop their ideas. A […]

Promoting Collaborative Learning

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Miriam Bak McKenna

As this course progresses I am becoming more aware of the power of online learning to radically transform educational experiences. I believe for the most part this will be for the better. But I am also believe that technology alone will not transform learning – strong pedagogy combined with the use of technology … Continue reading Promoting Collaborative Learning

Topic 1: Online Participation and Digital Literacies

Posted on April 29, 2019May 16, 2019 by Gamze Sökücü

Digital SomethingI used to define myself as a digital something, but could not be sure anymore after I had exhausted all the possible combinations of native, immigrant or nomad at various intervals. The digital pull was always there but qui…

Designing for learning

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Noora Lohi

The past two weeks we have been exploring the model Community of inquiry. The model is presented in the previous post. A couple of things caught my attention. Cleveland-Innes, M. (2018) presents categories of teacher presence. She says the teacher presence is seen in three dimensions: Design and organization Facilitating discourse Direct instruction This is … Continue reading Designing for learning →