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Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning

Remember the ubiquitous overhead projectors in classrooms, usually with the electric cord across the floor to trip on, during the lectures and writings on the whiteboard? In Media and Communication Studies they were often used for showing images of media content or figures from textbooks. When I moved my office a few years ago, allContinue reading “Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning”

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How to design an iclusive learning experience ?

Advances in Neuroscience and education research revealed that learning is as unique to individuals as their fingerprints or DNA , so how can teachers design a personalized learning experience for diverse students needs , abilities and intelligences? The UDL ( Universal Design for learning) could be one of the framework that can help teachers inContinue reading “How to design an iclusive learning experience ?”

Design for online and blended learning – Evolution of the “Teachilitator”

The online revolution in higher education has started decades ago and is by no means something new. But it has experienced a tremendous boost caused by the massive restrictions that we went through in 2020. Countless courses taught in physical classrooms in the past were migrated to the virtual space. The fact that teaching takesContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning – Evolution of the “Teachilitator””

Topic 4 Design for online and blended learning

In 2014 I decided together with a colleague to create an online-course aimed at strengthening active music teachers in their role as material-creators e.g. creating their own backingtracks and sheet music and also being able to record themselves and their students with a DAW (digital audio workstation). This was my first attempt at creating aFortsätt läsa “Topic 4 Design for online and blended learning”

Online learning in communities or/and networked collaborative learning?

This reflection will be upon online community’s vs online network in an educational setting. Listening to Kay Oddone lecture on the ONL202 homepage the community is a known set of people who do not change too often. At the opposite the Network is in constantly changing depending on who you decide to follow (and whoContinue reading “Online learning in communities or/and networked collaborative learning?”

Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

The Open Networked Learning-course, or the ONL, has given me a second possibility to engage in a PBL-teaching format as a student. The first time I engaged in PBL was 25 years ago, in the nursing programme at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between these educational experiences, I wrote a doctoral thesis concerning integrated teaching that IFortsätt läsa “Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

Creating a Learning Community: A Double-Edged Sword?

A great deal of my academic work examines how individuals behave in collective settings (e.g., teams, working groups, projects etc.). My research is rooted in organizational behavior literature, where the terms cooperation and collaboration are used in an interchangeable manner. In fact, I also have not paid much attention to the differences between these twoContinue reading “Creating a Learning Community: A Double-Edged Sword?”

[Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

Firstly, I must admit that it was so unexpected to hear the webinar about Community of Inquiry (CoI) as a framework for designing flexible, networked and community-based learning, under ‘Blended learning’. I thought I would hear more directly relevant issues regarding blended learning. But very soon, I realised that it IS important to understand the…Read more [Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty