What are the major features to consider when designing a course in an online setting?

Posted on by silvia montanari

Topic- 4 reflections From my experience designing blended, fully online or hybrid courses might be very challenging if you do not proceed with a careful planning. Of course this might be adjusted during the delivery of the course, but the main framework should be in place since the beginning. ( Salmon., G. 2013) Certainly knowingContinue reading “What are the major features to consider when designing a course in an online setting?”

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Reflection 4: Blended learning and hybrid learning: Teachers’ support to students

Posted on by Lazarus Fotoh

In this reflection, I will be focusing on the potential support teachers can provide to students to facilitate blended and hybrid learning. It is worth mentioning that blended learning provides an alternate approach to engage students via various learning experiences particularly for students with difficulties learning in a physical classroom. This mode of learning shifts […]

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Retention and Presence – is there a correlation?

Posted on by Charlotta Edlund

When going through topic 4 (design for online and blended learning) many of our discussions focused on different types of presence and retention. We came to realize the importance of defining the context before planning and designing a course or activities within a course. When planning blended or online learning strategies, variation is a keyContinue reading “Retention and Presence – is there a correlation?”

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Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?

Posted on by W.L. Cheah

When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

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Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?

Posted on by W.L. Cheah

When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

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Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Martin Olsson

Everyone can relate to the feeling of having a teacher who has ruined the joy of learning by being authoritarian or downright mean. This can certainly sometimes relate to the personal chemistry between teacher-student. Alternatively the teacher is authoritarian in his professional practice to control a group of students. The teaching role has traditional beenFortsätt läsa “Design for online and blended learning”

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Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Meghan Anderson

Over the past year, many designers, teachers, lecturers and facilitators needed to embrace online learning for the first time. This caused a high level of anxiety for some while others seemed to have adapted easily. While working through this course and exploring the Community of Inquiry, I feel that this adaptation was easier for thoseContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning”