Topic 3: Learning in communities

My personal experience in online collaboration extends to using learning management systems, chat platforms and document sharing platforms (and email). These experiences have always been complemented by having face-to-face meetings from time to time. I used two major platforms to communicate for collaboration with my teaching assistants: WhatsApp and Slack. I find each of themContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”

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Topic 5: A pleasant journey towards becoming a digital resident. Thanks ONL!

Taking an Online Networked Learning (ONL) course can be quite a challenge and an overwhelming experience for an ONL rookie, at least in the beginning of the course. This is a brief story of experiences of one such ONL-rookie :-). Let me start by saying that although this course was pretty heavy in terms ofContinue reading “Topic 5: A pleasant journey towards becoming a digital resident. Thanks ONL!”

Open Educational Practices

Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

“Open Educational Practices” by oeps.scotland is licensed under CC BY 2.0   Topic 2 of ONL introduced a bunch of acronyms: OEP, OER, PLE, PLN. These acronyms are linked by the topics we had to consider: open education and sharing. Here are some definitions of these acronyms: OEP, open educational practices, are concerned with promoting and supporting equity and openness in education.OER, open educational resources, are openly licencedContinue reading “Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

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Topic 4 Implementing Blended Learning

During topic 4, we focused on the question ‘how to convince the head of the department to start with blended learning’. The scenario of Topic 4: “I have recently attended a course in online learning and it has offered many new insights regarding transformative opportunities for my own teaching. So how can I now put […]