Practice meets theory & presence develops from presence

Dear reader, The topic this week, Design for online and blended learning, relates to a current development project that I am involved in at my institution. This autumn, I have been streamlining and updating a blended course on Academic Writing together with a colleague, as part of a wider collection and network of online learningContinue reading “Practice meets theory & presence develops from presence”

Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

Network Collaborative Learning means to work and learn with/from other people. It is a massive opportunity to amplify our perspectives of a goal, through different points of view (each person), and in this way, achieving better solutions/results. To have a successful networked learning two actions are necessary: collaboration and cooperation. I must confess that I … Continue reading Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

Network Collaborative Learning means to work and learn with/from other people. It is a massive opportunity to amplify our perspectives of a goal, through different points of view (each person), and in this way, achieving better solutions/results. To have a successful networked learning two actions are necessary: collaboration and cooperation. I must confess that I … Continue reading Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

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Design for online and blended learning

How emotional presence influence our teaching? According to Martha Cleveland-Innes emotion could be considered the 4th presence in education and learning, in addition to the teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence. For me, definitely emotion is driving most of our decisions, in life in general and at work as well. We are, however, trainedPoursuivre la lecture de “Design for online and blended learning”

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The (delightfully) macabre stories of host behavior manipulations by parasites

Are you truly the master of your own behaviors? This lecture presents some examples that may make you think twice! I presented this lecture to acquire the title of Docent in Biology from the Lund University, Sweden. The aim was for my peers to judge my teaching competences, and for me to convey a message … Continue reading The (delightfully) macabre stories of host behavior manipulations by parasites

Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?

Dear Reader, Our third topic on our ONL-course was Learning in Communities – networked collaborative learning. In other words, this topic is also the embodiment of our work in action during this course. While investigating this topic, I have thus also spent a lot of time navel-gazing and trying to observe our working methods fromContinue reading “Where, how, what, and with whom will you learn today?”

OER’s – Learning to share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeyCc6we-s The video is an introduction to using Open Education Resources (OER), the video refers to education being costly and not easily accessible as well as material not being updated which can have serious implica…