Topics – Page 17 – Open Networked Learning

Welcome to Topic 5 – concluding week: Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020 by Lotta ÅbjörnssonLeave a Comment

OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL201 around late-February and how you feel now, about the digital stuff that’s available out there, about your own capability? We hope you have found what you were looking for when […]

Opportunities of Blended learning

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Adithya Thaduri

On the previous topic of online collaborative learning approach, it becomes apparent that to improve the broader perspective and learning of a problem, it is necessary to have both digital tools and competence from various disciplines. However, in order to support these prerequisites, it is necessary to have a platform that consists of leaning theoriesContinue reading “Opportunities of Blended learning”

Is collaboration always possible?

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Silke Welter

How do my students manage that? They work, most of them full-time, have families and study a master-programme – all at the same time. I always had the biggest respect for them, but now, being in a kind of the same position – but only for some weeks and without grades – I don´t knowContinue reading “Is collaboration always possible?”

Design for online learning

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Clarissa Sielemann

This week was all about online and blended learning.In my facility we are normally using a blended learning design.Starting with some text-input and an online questionnaire and than a first in-person meeting. In the first meeting the participants get some more information for the topic and they organize themselves into groups for the exam. The … Continue reading Design for online learning

Collaborative learning for the society?

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Jukka Välimäki

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 be academics and professionals in their fields can of course beContinue reading “Collaborative learning for the society?”

Topic 5: End of a journey

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by iouant

The ONL course is almost over. What a journey!I learned many things through my engagement in this course. First of all, I experienced how it is to learn through sharing experiences, concepts and ideas and through building your own experiences togethe…

Reflection on topic 4: design for online and blended learning

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Victoria Marín

We are approaching the end of the Open Networked Learning course. This time we have addressed topic 4, being the focus on technology-enhanced learning design, which is one of my top practice and research interests within my academic trajectory in educational technology. On the other hand, of course, the topic comes now really timely, since… Continue reading Reflection on topic 4: design for online and blended learning

Emotion and learning. Also cats.

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Daniel de Augustinis

In Touching Feeling, Eve Sedgwick (2003) drew on a material approach to performativity and included an affective dimension. For those unfamiliar with performativity theory, here’s a summary: when we use language, we do not mirror the truth, but we constitute it, challenge it or reproduce it in a complex tango of repetition and difference, likeContinue reading “Emotion and learning. Also cats.”

Topic 4: Blended learning

Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

Many educators nowadays implement blended learning designs in their courses. The development of technology has brought the possibility to use different digital platforms and tools for education that can aid teaching and learning and facilitate their pr…

Topic 3: Connectivism and online collaborative learning

Posted on May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

How learners can learn collaboratively while taking an online course if they are not in a classroom filled with classmates and they are physically isolated interacting only through their computer? At first, it may seem like an oxymoron but would it mak…

Topic 2: Openness as Public Good .. but also Privilege

Posted on May 5, 2020 by ivan kwek

Openness is in fashion. Openness is also big business. Surely openness is a good idea, isn’t it? Think of the many ways I had benefited from the generosity of colleagues, and strangers even, who were so willing to share. Let me count the ways. Each and every “original thought” I thought I had probably arose … Continue reading Topic 2: Openness as Public Good .. but also Privilege

Topic 4: What is Blended in Blended Learning when all are Staying Home?

Posted on May 1, 2020 by ivan kwek

I had always been suspicious of the idea of blended learning. Not because I do not think it a good thing. On the contrary, it seems hard to argue against in the current pedagogical climate. So, what’s my problem with it? Well, it is the unquestioning faith in the affordances of digital and online technologies … Continue reading Topic 4: What is Blended in Blended Learning when all are Staying Home?