Again, let us make first an order on the table – what are all those things about? In the implementation of the concept of blended learning many researchers and pratitioners use a classification of Michael B. Horn, who is actively involved in the …

A course, a community, an approach
Again, let us make first an order on the table – what are all those things about? In the implementation of the concept of blended learning many researchers and pratitioners use a classification of Michael B. Horn, who is actively involved in the …
”Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.” (The Open Education Consortium) My path of understanding topic 2 starts from this very broad definition of what open education is. Is it a philosophical discussion about what openness means? Or is it […]
As a mathematician, I am always trying to figure out exact structures, at least learn/formulate definitions, in what I am going to study or think about. In below, I am trying to express my findings on the topic in this contex. Actually, there are sever…
… the end of journey… or just the first step This was the last week of the ONL221 course. This week we reflected about what this course was about, what we learn, the experiences that we shared and the tools that we will bring to our future practice. Personally, I believe that this course was […]
This has been a great journey. So many interesting people and so many useful things that we have looked into. The topics have been well chosen and prepared with good speakers and interesting reading materials. At first, I thought that twelve weeks would be a far too long period for the course, but it was […]
“Every day I live to dream, but in every dream, I dream of living.”Shortened to: Live to dream. Dream to live. As it is inscribed on the unders of my arms.I came up with this quote many a year ago, inspired by James Dean’s “Live as though you’ll die to…
For those of you who have been able to get to know me a little better, you will know that I am a HUGE Beatles fan – so much so that my…
The ONL path had quite a few unexpected twists and turns for me personally. From the outset of this course, …
This particular topic (Design for online & blended learning) is not only interesting to me as an academic learning designer, but also as…
The ONL course represents, in my opinion, the remarkable effort to adapt teaching and learning to technology. Once acknowledged that technology impacts our daily way of living, working, and communicating, this course provides a wide range of topics (too wide, I would say, to be grasped by teachers not in pedagogy) to reflect on the […]
ONL allowed me to explore both familiar and less familiar topics regarding teaching while it also provided a chance to study and work the way we want students to. I believe that we are more likely to succeed if we have first-hand experience of the things that we are trying to implement and thus all … Continue reading Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice
One of the teacher’s primary roles is to be a designer of learning modules. All teachers plan their teaching, from single activities in everyday lesson plans to overarching course designs. The task of designing complex learning modules which encompass online, hybrid and collaborative learning should arguably be assigned to teacher teams rather than single teachers, … Continue reading Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning