#ONL212 – Page 37 – Open Networked Learning

Topic 5 – end of ONL201 journey…

Posted on May 20, 2020 by mehrdad

Last week, we had the final week of the ONL201 course when we met with all the group 10 (PBL10) members for the last time as part of this course and shared our reflections. ONL201 was overall an interesting journey as we did hands-on experiments on how to design an online course, discussed the challenges … Continue reading Topic 5 – end of ONL201 journey… →

Topic 5 ONL201 Journey Reflection

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Kanyisa

If my Calendar serves my memory correct it has been 12 weeks since I enrolled for ONL201 and every week has its own challenges and accomplishments. Now we have reached the end of our ONL201 journey and it has been nothing short of greatness and wealth of knowledge and experience. I would not substitute this … Continue reading Topic 5 ONL201 Journey Reflection →

Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments.

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Kanyisa

During the past two weeks of topic 4 (Design for online and blended learning) it is evident that Online learning is something that each and every institution will have to adapt soon or later. For Teachers/Lecturers this can be a demanding task to implement in their teaching and learning pedagogy. I think my PBL Group … Continue reading Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments. →

Importance of a Course/Subject Nature and Type in Course Design

Posted on May 2, 2020 by mehrdad

There can be many factors to take into account in deciding the design of a course and adopting the right methods for teaching it, but one factor which I believe plays an important role and can affect our teaching methods is the type of courses and programs. Some courses like from the programs in human … Continue reading Importance of a Course/Subject Nature and Type in Course Design →

Topic 3: When real life collaborative learning took place.

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Kanyisa

In the past 2 weeks of trying to unpack the topic of Online Collaborative learning in our communities, it became evident that there is a distinct difference between cooperative and collaborative learning. According to Laal et al (2012) some of the difference between cooperative and collaborative learning is that the teacher involvement and guiding is … Continue reading Topic 3: When real life collaborative learning took place. →

Community of practice for distance teaching during the covid-19 pandemic

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Johanna Zilliacus

A community of practice is a group of professionals who have a common interest and learn from each other to build a best practice (1, 2). University teachers can gain from building their community of practice to develop teaching practice and support each other. A community of practice can also be seen as a combination … Continue reading Community of practice for distance teaching during the covid-19 pandemic →

Facilitated peer-review (on distance)

Posted on April 24, 2020February 9, 2022 by petert

A couple of years ago I started to think about how to improve academic writing for my students. I developed a facilitated peer-review process (Törlind 2019) that I implemented in one of my courses Product and production design. In the course students w…

What is a MOOC?

Posted on April 22, 2020 by mehrdad

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course, and if you search the web for how a MOOC should be designed and what can be considered a MOOC you get many different opinions and definitions. Apparently, it is easy to confuse and consider many forms of online teaching with the concept of MOOC (e..g, to sound … Continue reading What is a MOOC? →

Availability Problem

Posted on April 20, 2020 by mehrdad

One of the issues in the move towards online education and use of digital platforms for teaching is with respect to the availability of the teachers. This is something that I have personally heard from different teachers that although digital education tools and platforms provide so many benefits, but on the flip side, they may … Continue reading Availability Problem →

Open learning-Sharing and Openness.

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Kanyisa

“Where do I even start?” This has become a very common question from the time Topic 2 was launched, to our first PBL group meeting for Topic 2, as i try to settle and prepare to work from home as my country (South Africa) went into 21 days of Lock down and yet again as … Continue reading Open learning-Sharing and Openness. →

Learning opportunities for all

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Johanna Zilliacus

Open learning can defined as the very wide concept of removing barriers for learning (1). Using this definition most teaching probably would be defined as open learning, since teaching should be about supporting learning of all our students. Open learning can also relate to the UN sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4) “Ensure inclusive and equitable … Continue reading Learning opportunities for all →

What is this all about?

Posted on April 1, 2020 by mehrdad

Well, let me start by introducing myself. My name is Mehrdad Saadatmand. I have a PhD in Software Engineering and I work as senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in the city of Västerås. To improve my pedagogical skills I have been taking some courses, and one of them is the Open Networked … Continue reading What is this all about? →