Friday, December 18th Posted on December 18, 2020 by johannarndt Reflection of ONL 202 For this blog post I want to reflect upon the last ten weeks, for which I have been a part of the Open Networked Learning course and I want to reflect my experiences with the help of guiding questions that have been provided by the ONL facilitators. In old “FISh”-traditionContinue reading “Friday, December 18th”
Monday, December 14th Posted on December 14, 2020 by johannarndt For this blog post’s topic, I didn’t have to think for a long time. When we discussed a change in teacher-student roles, I immediately thought about the concept of critical pedagogy. A concept which emphasizes how closely related social justice and democracy are to practices of learning and teaching. It was crucially influenced by theContinue reading “Monday, December 14th”
Topic 5: End of the ONL journey…. Posted on December 12, 2020December 13, 2020 by Marietjie Pienaar Are we all fine???? Covid 19 has forced us all to move our communication online. We are all working hard during lockdown trying to keep the students on track, to shift to online learning within a short space of time. Technology is there, bu…
Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by Marietjie Pienaar During this session we shared our ideas and experiences of online and blended learning, especially during 2020 with the Covid 19 pandemic. All members in the group mentioned the change and transition for Face-to-Face classes to online class…
Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by Marietjie Pienaar Richard E. West & Gregory S. Williams, defines the characteristics of a learning community as: I will try to operationalise a learning community according to the four characteristics that serve as the boundaries for defining a communi…
Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by Marietjie Pienaar In our ONL group we discussed all the different platforms where we can share our knowledge. Where we can make the knowledge available to our students. Is it really that easy, or are there some rules and regulations? I was really interested…
Topic 1: Digital literacy, what is that???? Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by Marietjie Pienaar How can we define this and how do we promote this in our students? Calvani, Cartelli, Fini and Ranieri (2008) define digital literacy as an umbrella framework of several complex and integrated literacies, and this includes skills, knowledge, ethi…
Lessons learned..and moving forward Posted on December 12, 2020 by Raul Ferrer Conill As the ONL202 ends, this post is a great exercise to reflect on what I (or we, the PLB14) learned during this course. I think to bring such a story to fruition, I probably...
Lessons learnt and future practice (through the metaphors of traffic situations) Posted on December 4, 2020 by Susanne Westman In this last blog post I will summarize my main take-aways from the ONL course and also reflect about future steps. Let me start by a meme although this picture doesn’t show the whole truth about reasons for converting to online or distance courses with blended learning (for other reasons see my last blog post).Continue reading “Lessons learnt and future practice (through the metaphors of traffic situations)”
Considering Communities of Inquiry and Blended learning for Design of Distance Education Posted on December 3, 2020 by Susanne Westman Covid has made more pupils and students working online and the presence among students that usually not attend every lesson has increased due to this fact. Still, many students express feelings of loneliness and a too big responsibility to drive your learning “by your self”. I do believe that we can better prepare our coursesContinue reading “Considering Communities of Inquiry and Blended learning for Design of Distance Education”
From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online Posted on December 2, 2020 by Susanne Westman In this blog on topic 4 I will give a short view of the history of Community in Practices and then elaborate a bit about the differences between Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks. Finally, I illuminate some characteristics of a learning community online and reflect upon my PBL groups journey in relation to that.Continue reading “From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online”
Differences between learning communities and communities of inquiry Posted on November 29, 2020 by Raul Ferrer Conill Topic 4 kicked my OCD and I didn’t seem to let go. In our PBL we discussed quite a lot about what is the main difference between learning communities and communities of inquiry. It...
