Topic 2First day. I was charing the session.first Discussion on openess, what do we mean by this?the discussion turns to open courses, which apparently is not an option among any of our universities.Verily and Tiina suggest differ websites for op…

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Topic 2First day. I was charing the session.first Discussion on openess, what do we mean by this?the discussion turns to open courses, which apparently is not an option among any of our universities.Verily and Tiina suggest differ websites for op…
In the first week of this course we were told that this would be an unpredictable adventure and that we would need to ‘trust the process’. While I didn’t understand it at the time, looking back I can agree that this was good advice! A major lesson I learned is that trusting the process doesn’tContinue reading “Trusting the process”
Zoom’s catchphrase is ‘we deliver happiness’ because sustainable happiness comes from making other people happy (Zoom Video Communications, 2021). Some of us may laugh at this because Zoom has certainly given us headaches alongside this so-called happiness! How many times have we said some version of this in the last two years – ‘can youContinue reading “The times they are a-changin’ – So we must change with them”
I mentioned earlier the HarvardX course I studied last year, it actually became a part of this course as well. It was the Leaders of Learning, including the Modes of Learning from Prof. Elmore. This course put a nice framework to different kinds of learning, and also looking into the future, actually slighly foreboding the […]
In this topic we had a great deal of discussions over how to design modules of blended learning, focusing on the students experience. Some teaching is of course best teached face to face, and must remain like this. Discussions among people who dont know or trust each other for instance. But some parts actually work […]
As teaching has been conducted online last year, most teachers have been asking themselves: “How do I engage the students?” and “How can I make the collaborate online?” This is a very hard topic, and many teachers have worked hard on this, with divided results on most cases. Our dicussions in the group where of […]
The online teaching has one strong possibility in teaching: Openness. For me, when the pandemic hit, already the second week I was inscribed in several online courses, including one very interesting course on leadership in teaching environments from Harvard University. It was actually for HarvardX, the platform for MOOC, Massive Open Online Courses, where thousans […]
The pandemic put all our teaching online for a prolonged time. This enormous change of education put a thousands of challenges, and made teachers all over the globe to rethink their ways of teaching. Now, one and a half year later, all teachers have actually done it. We did put teaching in online setting, for […]
As a final task on this course, we are to define our key lessons learnt. The course has been different from what I expected, but it has been very interesting, and I have gotten a lot of new ideas and references. Below you find my personal reflections. …
This fourth topic Design for Online and Blended Learning has been such an interesting topic! I would have liked to spend at least twice as much time on the subject! During my career, there has been a few occasions, where models/ways of working ha…
The third topic is on Learning in Communities – Networked Collaborative Learning. In our course material, Kay Oddone discusses personal learning networks (PLN), online learning communities and personal online learning networks. According to Kay …
The second topic is Open Learning – Sharing and Openness. And it is a vast topic, covering such different areas as the individual creator´s rights to his/her creations as well as openness and rights to education from a societal perspective -…