In nowadays, we observe a huge growth in classroom technology, and with it, the introduction of new learning methodologies. One example that encourages collaborative learning is padlet. According to Nuiteq, (2017) Collaborative learning makes students with different backgrounds, race, or up bringing, to work together. They come together in a setting that maybe would not … Continue reading WHY COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IMPORTANT?. Lets look at its benefits

Developing groups to teams can be quite a challenge in real life. How much more is it a challenge online? Online learning is really strongly depending on the quality of our personal relationship to the members of the group we are learning in. My personal learning network almost naturally consists of people whom I can … Continue reading Swinging with each other in online communication →

I would like to start by introducing what I do for living. I am a teacher at an University of Applied Sciences where I have the privilege to create the future nurses. The main topics I teach in are clinical care and medication administration. I have ordinary lectures, skill stations where they learn how to … Continue reading Learning in Communities – Networked Collaborative Learning →

Online resources may lie more in enabling our students’ learning experience than in saving time developing resources. The good news for teachers and students is that a new category of resources, open educational resources has emerged over the past several years, and some universities and teachers are finding that it can offer a lot of benefits … Continue reading ARE THERE ANY PROS and CONS IN USING OER? A deep reflection on open material.

Now think about it: How can teaching be closed? If one teaches another they have to open up, don’t they? If you close yourself up, there is no teaching and no learning. It is a bit like Watzlawick’s “One cannot not communicate.” You cannot teach and be all closed. If you are not closed, openness … Continue reading Openness in education – What the heck does that mean? →

Reflections: “Options for offering courses that are open” There are several options that can be opted in relation to the degrees of openness for courses that are open. Facilitator/instructor may decide to license their course content using CC license to allow other instructors to build and improve their course content1 and they in turn can … Continue reading Online Sharing & Openness