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Welcome to concluding week: Lessons learnt – future perspectives

OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL192 around mid-September, 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 […]

Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

Network Collaborative Learning means to work and learn with/from other people. It is a massive opportunity to amplify our perspectives of a goal, through different points of view (each person), and in this way, achieving better solutions/results. To have a successful networked learning two actions are necessary: collaboration and cooperation. I must confess that I … Continue reading Collaboration or Cooperation? What are we really doing?

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

This week’s topic was in my opinion the most interesting topic so far of the ONL course. In the PBL groups, we explored resources on online and blended learning. By definition, blended learning is a teaching method that integrates online media and technologies (e.g. films, online discussions, quizzes) with traditional teacher-led classroom activities. Importantly, theFortsätt läsa “Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning”

Topic 3

Initially the theme of this topic seemed a bit off to me, and I found it hard to see the relevance. However, discussing the concept of collaborative learning proved very valuable, and having thought about this and related it to cooperative activities has actually proved useful already. Though I still don’t think that we shouldContinue reading “Topic 3”

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Topic 4: Emotional Presence in Collaborative Learning

This blog explores the effects of emotions on collaborative learning in the Problem Based Learning groups. In this regard, the blog revisits the hierarchical iterative fork-join collaboration model and superimposes this model with the effect of emotions. Let’s start by looking at the vital prerequisites to a successful educational experience in higher education, which isContinue reading “Topic 4: Emotional Presence in Collaborative Learning”