


Education for the century we live in
Last week I got the opportunity to attend an open lecture about education. The lecturer was a professor in the science of physics, and he wanted to share his thoughts about knowledge and learning. His main message was that we have gotten to much dependent on the artefacts in our modern society. The lecturer meant … Fortsätt läsa Education for the century we live in

Blog 4: Topic 4
Design for online and blended learning: Comments on emotions In this blog, I will simply focus on the few words that I exchanged with Marti Cleveland-Innes during the webinar on 26 November. I told her that I would like to see if my students or colleagues are happy when I teach a course or chairFortsätt läsa “Blog 4: Topic 4”

Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacies
The weeks have gone by fast and we are now almost done with the course — so time is up … More

Design for online and blended learning
How emotional presence influence our teaching? According to Martha Cleveland-Innes emotion could be considered the 4th presence in education and learning, in addition to the teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence. For me, definitely emotion is driving most of our decisions, in life in general and at work as well. We are, however, trainedPoursuivre la lecture de “Design for online and blended learning”

Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning
The topic Design for online and blended learning have been the most challenging topic so far in the ONL-course. Even if I have experienced both being a student and a teacher in online and blended learning, I am still struggling when taking the position to guide colleagues in re(designing) their courses for online or blended. … Continue reading Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning

How to reveal the benefits of informal learning in online communities?
Over the past decades, informatica and communication technology (ICT) became more and more intertwined in our daily lives. ICT transformed the way people work, communicate and …the way we learn. My profession as instructional designer wouldn’t exist without ICT. Online technology has influenced the way we share information, the way we generate knowledge and how […]

Topic 3: Learning in communities – another C: confusion
We spent two weeks on the topic ‘learning in communities’. For the last three days I was debating what to put in my blog. To my surprise, the more I think about the topic, the more I realise that I know very little, and some issues are confusing. Was I a social loafer these past … Continue reading Topic 3: Learning in communities – another C: confusion

A never expected turn of events…
I have to admit – it is getting more and more likely that I will become a blogger in the near future. What has happened? Where did this surprising change come from, given my earlier scepticism (see my previous blogs)? In Topic 3, I have been working on „Personal Learning Networks“ (PLN) and „networked collaborative“A never expected turn of events…” weiterlesen

Evolving from group work to collaboration (Topic 3)
It was in this topic that I felt that we had really collaborated as a group. For previous topics what we were doing would better be described as group work – we participated by individually contributing articles, weblinks, or personal anecdotes, but there was not much collaborative discussion going on. Don’t get me wrong –Continue reading “Evolving from group work to collaboration (Topic 3)”

Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
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The topic In this topic ‘Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning’, our PBL group were interested in the term ‘connectivism’. I particularly enjoyed reading the original article on this by George Siemens from 2005. There were so many aspects included in the founding of this –ism that…

Experiences with Collaborative Learning
After reading the articles related to Open Networked Learning. I’ve found that the opinion of others reflects my own experience. In my experience, the completion of collaborative tasks meant either very little reflection for my efforts in group-based work or carrying a big portion of group work while others would benefit from my individual effort.Continue reading “Experiences with Collaborative Learning”