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Open-Learning // Blended Future

The combination of in-person and online instruction has become a key trend in higher education, altering how both students and teachers learn. The conventional distinctions between actual classrooms and virtual learning settings are becoming more hazy as technological developments continue to change the face of education. Blended learning is a cutting-edge method that blends the […]

Reflection 5: My Overall Insight

Hello everyone! I am writing this post to discuss my insights within the whole duration of the training. The use of digital tools in education has increased significantly in recent years, and this has had a profound impact on both students and teachers. One of the most striking aspects of this shift is the way […]

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Digital Literacy & Emotions

“So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning.” – Bill Gates (Manzo, Bill Gates promotes e-learning 2023) Heading for Narnia? Technology has been […]

How to appreciate group work?

Within the framework of the topic connected with collaborative learning, our group decided to investigate how students perceive this topic and how we, as teachers, perceive it through research. More than 90% of students spoke positively about working in groups. This high number surprised me, but I compared it with other studies that reported similar […]

Reflection 4: Digital Tools

Hello Everyone! For this topic, we explored and discussed the digital tools that we are using in our classes. The focus of our group is to identify the digital tools that we can use in our classes and how to integrate them into our synchronous and asynchronous activities. In our discussion, each one of us […]

Reflection 3: Collaboration

Hello everyone! Topic 3 is about collaboration and we were tasked to lead the group in developing our output. First, I and my partner already identified the things that we need to focus on to develop our output, and then we told our group mates to streamline the focus by choosing from the options we […]

Should be university knowledge available for everyone?

When we started dealing with open learning, I had to find a definition to know what we would talk about. I started with the Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, which provides a comprehensive but broad explanation of open learning: ”open learning” describes learning situations in which learners have the flexibility to choose from a variety […]

Is it the same me in the digital age as me growing up in the 1980s?

The digital era, i.e. the time we live, is characterised based on various criteria. The main one, modern technology, plays a vital role in accelerating and deepening society’s knowledge acquisition, thereby significantly influencing its development. As a person born in the late 1980s, I feel safe and confident using technology, but is that true and how […]