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Thoughts on topic 4

Posted on by Ann Scott

This week we started discussing design for online and blended learning in our ONL course. This will be interesting! In the book Teaching as a Design Science (Laurillard, 2012), the author talks about teaching and learning, and she raises a number of interesting questions on what it takes to teach and what it basically takes… Continue reading Thoughts on topic 4

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on by Mika Sipponen

Collaborative work can be a daunting task if not all the participants are working coherently towards a common goal. Talking to my peers it has become evident that group assignments often fail to engage participants equally. Since this is a reflection blog, I take the freedom to share some of my own experiences. In retrospect,Continue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Collaborate to build a Community of Practice

Posted on by Sarada Bulchand

Learning to collaborate and collaborating to learn, both keep me wondering about best practices in building communities of practice (CoP). Whether in academia or the corporate sector, collaborations have become an essential element to the success of a project. Is it easy to bring a community together? Perhaps yes, with suitable inspiration and the rightContinue reading “Collaborate to build a Community of Practice”

Blog 1-2

Posted on by Kerstin Bragby

Open to learning in sharing – creating in common The first topic around entering and co-creating grounds for participation in learning, touched upon the underlying theme of establishing premises for trust, courage and vulnerability in interactive relationships. It related to different motives, incentives and overall purposes for education/life-long learning and wider educative journeys. The specificFortsätt läsa “Blog 1-2”

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Topic 3. From Collaboration to Cooperation and vice-versa.

Posted on by Cristina Paniagua

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” Mattie J.T. Stepanek If you had asked me some weeks ago about collaborative learning, I would have said: “working together to accomplish something as a group”. That vague definition is not really wrong by itself, however, it is quite generic. Usually,Continue reading “Topic 3. From Collaboration to Cooperation and vice-versa.”

How to motivate students to participate in a group?

Posted on by Tatja Pusa

(Topic 3) According to Brindley, Blaschke and Walti1 one motivation for a student participating in the group is making individual success dependent of group success. In my view, participating in the group must be meaningful not only for the sake of passing a course successively. Group participation must add something to the learning experience: makeContinue reading “How to motivate students to participate in a group?”

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The Topic 3 Blog: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on by Lynette Tan

There is a logical trajectory on this ONL211 course, where we began with the initial journey into open networked learning, the challenges related to open access and now in topic 3, how those already on the network collaborate. One of the articles that we looked into highlighted the frustration that people experience — for variousContinue reading “The Topic 3 Blog: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

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Discovering Twitter

Posted on by Svenja Bruenger

On Thursday, April 22nd, I participated in the tweet chat with Kay Oddone and Alastair Creelman about collaborative and networked learning. It was my second conversation on Twitter, first one being the conversation held in March with David White. This time there were less people participating which unfortunately had a great impact on the dynamicContinue reading “Discovering Twitter”

Learning in communities

Posted on by Annika Göran Rodell

The topic of this blog deals with issues that are dear to me. I have been involved in course development at the university for several years. When reading the blog of one of my fellow course (ONL211) member  Michail Galanakis,  I stopped and reflect. He states that collaborative learning and democracy fits together and then