Educational tools, tools, tools on my mind

There are so many tools out there that all supposedly support education that it’s mind-blowing. There is seemingly even a mind-map of mind-mapping tools! Fascinating! There are way too many that one could account for, let alone keep up with. Throughout the ONL course we are experimenting with quite a few, and while that’s perhaps […]

Collaborative Learning – A Personal Experience

Collaborative learning is seen as beneficial for students as it an example of active learning, where students actively present, share and test knowledge and ideas with a group of peers. It also has the added advantages of social connectedness and it reflecting workplace demands (Haythornthwaite, 2019). If students would like to more about the benefitsFortsätt läsa “Collaborative Learning – A Personal Experience”

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Why am I writing this?

-The Ultimate Question of Life, The University, and Everything   Why do students deliver their awesome work? Why do scientists explore and publish? Why do people do Ironman or climb mountains? Why do people create poems, music, craft and art…

Sharing and Openness

The video about creative licences was informative (Process Arts, 2011) to sort out how to make sure that my online material won’t be used in a manner that I didn’t intend. However, I’m not so concerned about getting credit so I’d probably just the CC0 …

Learning in Communities

I recently saw a documentary “A Life on Our Planet” narrated by David Attenborough (Hughes, Scholey, & Fothergill, 2020). In it, he put forth a notion that unlike other flora and fauna, humans do not need physical change in their bodies to create changes to the world around them. Humans can do that, but humans […]