ONL211 has been an exhilarating experience. I leave this course only to take with me all that I have learnt in the hope that much of it will be put into practice. I came into ONL mostly out of curiosity around concepts, best practices and current challenges in blended learning, the philosophy of open resourcesContinue reading “The journey to future practice”

This is the meme that my group, PBL5, created for the final artefact of Topic 5. And what a swim it has been. What I liked best about this journey was the community that we built. Meeting up twice a week certainly helped, as well as having like-minded team members who were experimental and adventurousContinue reading “The Topic 5 Blog: Lessons learnt – future practice”

I’ve come across Marti Cleveland-Innes’ ‘Community of Inquiry’ model before in thinking of how students connect with each other on learning platforms — particularly where I am trying to develop knowledge building communities (Scardamalia and Bereiter, 2006). These two weeks the topic was aligned to how online learning is effectively designed, and Cleveland-Innes delivered aContinue reading “The Topic 4 Blog: Design for online and blended learning”