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New tools!

I am now making the last week of the ONL-course and I will summarize my thoughts. When doing so I will focus on what I have learnt and what I am going to do now with the new tools acquired.So what are the new tools in my toolbox? As I have told you bef…

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Can we really include social and emotional presence in technical subjects?

When talking about online learning, there is a lot of discussion about the Community of Inquiry framework as a structure for a successful course. This focuses on teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence, with emotional presence introduced as a parallel or fourth presence. The use and embrace of emotions is of course really importantContinue reading “Can we really include social and emotional presence in technical subjects?”

Reflections on Topic 3

OK so for this topic I have chosen to reflect on ‘an occasion when real collaborative learning took place that moved your own thinking forward’, as it is aptly put on the ONL page.Although I have experienced some collaborative learning in the past (but…

Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments.

During the past two weeks of topic 4 (Design for online and blended learning) it is evident that Online learning is something that each and every institution will have to adapt soon or later. For Teachers/Lecturers this can be a demanding task to implement in their teaching and learning pedagogy. I think my PBL Group … Continue reading Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments.

Welcome to Topic 5 – concluding week: Lessons learnt – future practice

OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL201 around late-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 […]