It is indeed my good fortune today to chance upon Group 5’s posting on Blended Learning. Finally, all the random thoughts, ideas and questions I had drifting in my head are streamlined and crystallised. Here’s the big picture:The learning …

A course, a community, an approach
It is indeed my good fortune today to chance upon Group 5’s posting on Blended Learning. Finally, all the random thoughts, ideas and questions I had drifting in my head are streamlined and crystallised. Here’s the big picture:The learning …
As the costume designer for our Strange Crochet video production, and taking inspiration from Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes, teacher as bricoleur, I gathered old materials and brought them together in new ways. Working with these new media, in a different scale, I was clumsy in something that had felt natural to me before. I was forcedContinue reading “A Strange Crochet Mantle”
How to design an online course is such a way that it leads to the meaningful learning process for students? …
Almost a month has passed since I wrote the paragraphs below. I stopped short of posting it because I thought I should just let it sit for a while, let my rage subside completely and decide when my head is cool whether I should share my thoughts …
Watching the recorded webinar for topic 4 (Design for Online & Blended Learning), I am aware of the privileges I bring from my background area of expertise. Teaching in, and administering an applied program, so many of the principles described explicitly by Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes are intuitively and implicitly part of my practice. In normalContinue reading “On Stuckness and Superpowers”
In the old good days we used to attend school in groups of 20-30, learned together, played together and sometimes travelled with the…
Topic 3 – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learningLet me start my reflections by giving out real-life experience related to networked collaborative learning. This might not directly related to teaching but definitely a learning …
Open to learning in sharing – creating in common The first topic around entering and co-creating grounds for participation in learning, touched upon the underlying theme of establishing premises for trust, courage and vulnerability in interactive relationships. It related to different motives, incentives and overall purposes for education/life-long learning and wider educative journeys. The specificFortsätt läsa “Blog 1-2”
It took me a lot of thinking for writing this blog post on Topic 3. Maybe because I am experiencing a ‘bloggers block’ ? I was not sure whether such a term exists to define my situation but yay here it comes. When I did a little digging, I found this website that may be … Continue reading The impact of having “academic crush”
The topic of this blog deals with issues that are dear to me. I have been involved in course development at the university for several years. When reading the blog of one of my fellow course (ONL211) member Michail Galanakis, I stopped and reflect. He states that collaborative learning and democracy fits together and then
The first topic on ONL 211 course was digital literacies, literacy itself is not a new topic. The Traditional literacy which mean the ability to read and write is well known. On the other hand, the digital ones were new terminologies for me. When I heard the terminology, I was wondering why it was inContinue reading “Topic 1: ONL 211 Digital Literacies”
I have been thinking a lot about Product vs. Process in the education world. I find great joy in helping student transcend their results-orientation, if only for a moment, perhaps because I find it so hard to transcend myself. I do this both consciously and intuitively, through curriculum and instructional design, assessment practices, and modeling.Continue reading “Product VS Process”