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Challenges in Collaborative Learning

Posted on by Eduard Enoiu

I reflected quite a lot on the frustrations of both teachers and students in online collaborative learning. I started by reading quite an interesting paper [1] that outlined some of these issues: Even if some of these issues seem generic enough to be applied to any collaborative learning tasks, I think many of the challenges […]

Yet again, collaborative learning is essential

Posted on by Lejla Islami

When I reflect on my communities and the impact of them in my professional development and learning in general, I realize that I do not follow a lot of people (I am not really active) on social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. However, by doing so I never thought I was lacking […]

Collaborative learning topic 3

Posted on by Linn Hongell

I have worked as a teacher for over 20 years and I have as long worked on getting students collaborating. During the first 17 years it was collaboration in class but since 2020 it has been much more online focused. Online has not been a major learning platform for my university before the pandemic and […]

Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Posted on by Anna Småros

Who in the teaching community has not heard of the theory of “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”, as proposed by Marc Prensky (2001)? Personally, I must admit that I had not read the original essay by Prensky. I had come into contact with Prensky’s concepts, however, especially that of digital natives, as his ideas had … Continue reading Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

Wondeful weather

Posted on by Sergey Korotov

The weather is beautiful in our town today. Spring has come to our northern region. Nature is awakening from its winter sleep. The spring sun gives energy to live and create.