The focus for the first two weeks of the ONL course was to explore how people use digital spaces. The terms ‘Digital Natives’ and ‘Digital Immigrants’ were popularised by Marc Prensky in an article published in 2001. The former describes people born after, or grew up in, the digital age and who are ‘plugged in’Continue reading “Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacy”

With one day left of 2020 and the ONL202 course completed, in this post I look back to summarize and critically reflect on my learning and development thanks to the course. In a nutshell, it could be described in a few words – modelling practice, nudging, rewarding, fun, confidence, reflection. The most important experience fromContinue reading “Sparking an exciting and full of opportunities learning journey …”

The key question that we faced during this topic in the course is how to organize and nurture a process to creating a meaningful learning experience. The answer was through community of inquiry (CoI) and its three interdependent presences – social, cognitive and teaching. Figure 1 visualizes the basic idea of this concept. Fiock (2020)Continue reading “Challenges when designing for online and blended learning”

When I registered for the course Open Networked Learning, I did it on a whim. I knew that I wanted to develop my pedagogical skills in de…

In my department, many of the researchers engage in design research. As a result, when we are designing something new, we often start wit…

The fourth topic concerned on how to design a blended learning program.Blended learning is defined as the blend of two “face-to-face” and “online” learning modes or as described in [1], it is defined as “the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches”. We discussed three models, namely the five-stage model[2] ,Continue reading “Topic 4:Design for Online and Blended Learning”

The third topic centered around how to get people to really recognize the value of becoming part of a learning community and collaborate with their peers. The concept of collaborative learning is very new to me.I used to live and learn in a one-way broadcast environment. In a classroom with a strict rule (traditional style)Continue reading “Topic 3:Online learning in communities”

Our group discussions were about how to share an online course, how to create open material, what the obstacles were and most importantly what the benefits were. To me, openness has two perspectives. The first perspective is from the point of view of academics who will share their materials (they share their knowledge) and theContinue reading “Topic2: Openness of Education”