I hope to be able to create informative and helpful posts soon. I added this first post to the ONL202 category as part of the activities for the Open Networked Learning course starting on September 2020.

A course, a community, an approach
I hope to be able to create informative and helpful posts soon. I added this first post to the ONL202 category as part of the activities for the Open Networked Learning course starting on September 2020.
I has been a faculty member at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, NUS since 2009. Before joining NUS, I worked as an perioperative registered nurse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. I have over 20 years’ experience in clinical practice, education and research. My research is focused on nursing education, psychological well-being, psychoeducation for chronically ill […]
Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice Those of you following this blog know that I have started this course because one of the requirements of my tenure track is to pursue pedagogy training. When I signed up back in February, little did I know that the whole education world would be forced online overContinue reading “ONL201: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Learning”
Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning I could relate to this topic quite a lot as I’ve been experimenting with online and blended learning designs for some years now. As an undergraduate student in Eastern Europe in the late-2000s, most of my courses were lecture and textbook based. Just to get an idea,Continue reading “Achieving the Right Blend Requires Experimentation”
When reflecting back on this ONL course and this spring it is impossible not to think about the dramatic events in society caused by the Coronavirus and the world wide epidemic with its overall impacts in many areas and the sudden need for online teaching – “remote emergency teaching” rather than planned online course teaching, …
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“designers and educators need to create places that are not only safe to learn, but also spark some emotional interest” (Fielding 2006) To me, the fourth topic of the course, with its focus on emotional presence (Cleveland-Innes, 2008), particularly emotional presence within the Community of Inquiry framework (Cleveland-Innes & Campbell 2012) turned out to be some of …
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When reflecting on the third topic of this course and choosing one of the suggested questions for the blog posts, I was in doubt whether I could find a real learning experience that included: a) collaborative learning and b) something that moved my own thinking forward. The last part was the real challenge – how …
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I have participated the Open Networked Learning course (ONL 201). Now it’s time to reflect on what it has been and what I have learned. When I first started to write this post, I started with: “This course has taken some work and time, but the feeling is a bit sad now when it ends.”Continue reading “Topic 5: ONL 201 reflection”
Who are you really, and what do you think? These are the main questions here, although I’m writing about the Community of Inquiry, social presence and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a concept of a group of individuals inquiring some phenomenon. In blended or online learning, the CoI model includes threeContinue reading “Topic 4: Learning, together, about myself”
When I started the ONL201 course, the Covid-19 pandemic was limited to Chine only. As the pandemic spread around the world, businesses, social life and education almost stopped in many countries. People stayed lockdown at homes and sought education online. This made the ONL201 more inevitable and more valuable for all educators. Then, we learntOkumaya devam et “Lessons learnt well for the upcoming plans for online teaching/learning – Topic 5”
Originally posted on Lucia’s thoughts while learning @ONL201:
Photo by Malachi Brooks on Unsplash Deep learning, this is what in many discussions with my colleagues we have wished for. That our students would focus more and learn in a deeper way. And we have complained about how superficial they are, especially the generation we…
Originally posted on JONL – Jukka’s Open Networked Learning blog:
The three main functions of universities are often described to be education, research and serving society. These functions are intertwined, but here I’m focusing especially on the third one – serving the society – in relation to collaborative learning in education. Teaching students to…