Teaching Presence

     There are three types of presences articulated in Garrison, Anderson, and Archer’s (2000), Community of Inquiry model (CoI). They are social which is learner focused and is identified as the ability of students to project thems…

Designing for the student, is key to succeed

Finally, the topic I have been looking for since the beginning of this course is here, designing an online course. Honestly, I am equally unsure (or even more) on how to approach it as I was with the previous topics. There are many reasons for that and responsibility is one of them. I have been […]

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Topic 4 Design for online and blended learning

The concept of Blended Learning has made its entry into the education industry in recent years before the Covid-19 crisis. I don´t think it is anything new in terms of education, as most of what we’ve gone in the way of education has been more or less “blended”. No training is based solely on lectures, […]

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Teachers and students: all learners!

In this post, I’m going to investigate whether the exercise sessions in one of my courses can be considered as collaborative learning experiences or not. In the ocean of possible definitions of collaborative learning, I choose the following definition, or better, explanation of collaborative learning: “students work together in small groups toward a common goal. […]

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Support for engagement

In this post, I write about how the support a teacher may give to students is a valuable way to promote engagement in the course and contribute to collaborative learning. When I think to support, the first thing that comes to my mind is “answering to questions”. But support can be many different things and […]

Week 3: collaboration in teams

What a great topic this was to explore – networked collaborative learning. Collaboration often happens in groups. We know (and maybe some of us also feel that way) that group work is often avoided. There are many reasons for it – and many of them …