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Connecting studying to personal values can enhance engagement in learning

The introduction text for the he topic 4 (’Design for online and blended learning’) stated that ”Enhancing community building and promoting student engagement and ownership in learning becomes essential for blended and online learning.” Consequently, I started to ponder what are factors and practices that support students’ engagement and ownership in learning.  I teach about behavior … Continue reading “Connecting studying to personal values can enhance engagement in learning”

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Building trust

Topic 3 was about Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. We all have been there- taking part of a group work where communication halted. With social loafers that just want to hitchhike along not putting any effort into the work, or with a dominant person taking charge and decides pretty much everything themselves. Or, perhapsFortsätt läsa “Building trust”

Scaffolding, student’s journey & is this for everyone?

Gilly Salmon’s Five stage model offers an opportunity for teachers to reflect on how they (as teachers) need to support students in their development to be able to assimilate digital teaching and develop their ability to collaborate in the best possible way. The model is presented as a staircase with the steps: Access and motivationOnline …

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Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning

This year has been challenging in the educational sphere due to the urgent need to transfer nearly all our teaching to a scattered mesh of online formats and platforms. It has pushed many of us outside our comfort zones and towards a perpetual spiral of pedagogical compromise, but it has also triggered our inner ‘survivalContinue reading “Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning”

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Learning From Anywhere

Learning extends beyond the boundaries of a typical classroom as we have witnessed currently in the fight against the COVID pandemic worldwide. The traditional mode of learning is also inadequate in meeting the increasing demands of acquiring knowledge and skills in a rapid changing economy. With this context, let us explore how educators can ride …

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Learning by Design

A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design