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Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Ebba Sundin

Remember the ubiquitous overhead projectors in classrooms, usually with the electric cord across the floor to trip on, during the lectures and writings on the whiteboard? In Media and Communication Studies they were often used for showing images of media content or figures from textbooks. When I moved my office a few years ago, allContinue reading “Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning”

How to design an iclusive learning experience ?

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Nadia Cheikhrouhou

Advances in Neuroscience and education research revealed that learning is as unique to individuals as their fingerprints or DNA , so how can teachers design a personalized learning experience for diverse students needs , abilities and intelligences? The UDL ( Universal Design for learning) could be one of the framework that can help teachers inContinue reading “How to design an iclusive learning experience ?”

Topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Lena Hylving

What would a curry be without spices? Nothing. The blend of different spices make the difference of a good and a bad curry. Or no curry at all. Also, some like their curry really hot while others prefer a curry with no cardamom. With that said, it is difficult to find the perfect blend ofContinue reading “Topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning”

Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Maria Christidis

The Open Networked Learning-course, or the ONL, has given me a second possibility to engage in a PBL-teaching format as a student. The first time I engaged in PBL was 25 years ago, in the nursing programme at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between these educational experiences, I wrote a doctoral thesis concerning integrated teaching that IFortsätt läsa “Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

[Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

Posted on November 30, 2020 by mihi park

Firstly, I must admit that it was so unexpected to hear the webinar about Community of Inquiry (CoI) as a framework for designing flexible, networked and community-based learning, under ‘Blended learning’. I thought I would hear more directly relevant issues regarding blended learning. But very soon, I realised that it IS important to understand the…Read more [Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

Teaching materials: To share or not to share?

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Rebecca Laycock Pedersen

Since creating this website, I’ve been playing around with different ideas about what to include on it. However, in the past few weeks, the

Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Tuire Oittinen

This year has been challenging in the educational sphere due to the urgent need to transfer nearly all our teaching to a scattered mesh of online formats and platforms. It has pushed many of us outside our comfort zones and towards a perpetual spiral of pedagogical compromise, but it has also triggered our inner ‘survivalContinue reading “Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning”

Learning From Anywhere

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Dennis Ng

Learning extends beyond the boundaries of a typical classroom as we have witnessed currently in the fight against the COVID pandemic worldwide. The traditional mode of learning is also inadequate in meeting the increasing demands of acquiring knowledge and skills in a rapid changing economy. With this context, let us explore how educators can ride …

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Learning From Anywhere

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Dennis Ng

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Learning by Design

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Ting Hui

A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design

Lessons Learnt and Future Practice (Topic 5)

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Andi Sudjana Putra

Throughout the past four topics, I have journeyed from personal digital identity to online community in the context of education. As I was journeying from one topic to another, a few questions came to mind and now I have a chance to formulate them. I particularly put a lot of thoughts on these questions: Does […]

Place-making in online courses

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Derya Duran

It is not an easy job to provide a place for learners in online classes. For task 4, we reflected upon Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, a framework that describes three presences, namely Social, Cognitive and Teaching for online learning spaces. CoI aims to promote efficient online learning environments where students and instructors orient toContinue reading “Place-making in online courses”