The concept of the flipped classroom often includes some kind of preparation that is done before a more interactive lecture. It is important that the flipping by itself doesn’t actually add so much, as Jensen et al. highlighted in a study “t…

A course, a community, an approach
The concept of the flipped classroom often includes some kind of preparation that is done before a more interactive lecture. It is important that the flipping by itself doesn’t actually add so much, as Jensen et al. highlighted in a study “t…
On May 4, 2022, the Masters of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) at Blekinge Institute of Technology hosted an online…
From total chaos to some kind of understanding could describe my journey! In one of my previous posts I compared…
When Covid-19 pandemic started in spring 2020 I was not working at university or with teaching. But I’ve understand from…
In my experience the student mostly do think collaboration as the same as group work – which even I thought…
Interesting, fatiguing but foremost rewarding…. Reflecting back on this ONL is at the same time a reflection on my first, almost whole, year at Arcada. Taking part of the ONL course was valuable since it gave me a better understanding of how working with PBL groups feels from a student perspective. I feel learning collaboratively […]
This topic was by far the most interesting to me. This topic nicely connects all the previous topics in this ONL-course and gives me tools to design future courses. It seems to be a good way of planning courses in a more thoughtful manner, taking the different learners perspectives in account in a more structured […]
As knowledge today is changing rapidly the ability to see, and make connections in the vast amount of new knowledge is crucial. Also, with a massive amount of knowledge a crucial skill today is to rapidly evaluate whether something is worth knowing or not (Siemens, 2004) Siemens (2004) argues that technology has changed our societies […]
So I asked on my Facebook what I could write about for today’s blog with the theme of education in the new era. Ironically, the only response was the lack ICT in South African public schools. Abbreviated for Information, and Communication Technology, i…
The ONL journey came to the end, but my journey of improving my teaching with blended learning has just started. This course definitely fostered my teaching expertise and skills very much. The course ended with Topic 5 titled: Lessons learnt – future practice, which is another thing I valued on the design of this course. […]
So the ONL course has ended and I’m still pondering if I should keep this blog alive or not. There are some ideas in my head on where this could go and in which direction to develop. I’ll take another week or two to think about it and then…
Until now, I stilll remembered clearly how anxious I was in the spring of 2020, when the dean of our school asked whether I could change the on-campus exam to online exam three days before the scheduled exam date for my course due to the deterioration of the covid-19 situation in Sweden. And from then, […]