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Online fika

The third topic in #ONL191 is concerned with learning in communities, obviously with the focus on the networked aspect.  There is a lot of interesting evidence for the advantages of online working, most interestingly to me how this can promote higher-order thinking, meaning that students have more time to reflect and develop their ideas.  A […]

Welcome to concluding weeks: Lessons learnt – future perspectives

OK, so ten weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL191 around mid-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 […]

Design for Online and blended learning – Main principles and good practices

The basis of our work are the seven design principles suggested in chapter 1 of Vaughan, N. D., Cleveland-Innes, M., & Garrison, D. R. (2013). Teaching in blended learning environments: Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry. Edmonton: AU Press. From there, our goal was to give more concrete guidelines on how to adhere to these design […]

PBL Work, Topic 3, Group 3

Online collaboration includes and requires social and cognitive presence from the participants in association with the functions of teaching presence; design, facilitation and direction. According to literature, different aspects affect the learning process, especially regarding online learning and collaboration. We have chosen to focus on motivation, relationships on learning communities, curiosity, and sense of community.  Check out our work […]