What is Collaborative Learning? Collaborative learning is the educational approach of using groups to enhance learning through working together. Groups of two or more learners work together to solve problems, complete tasks, or learn new concepts The following are the benefits of collaborative learning and how I have used them in my classroom, My roleContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

What is blended learning? Blended learning is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with traditional place-based classroom methods. It requires the physical presence of both teacher and student, with some elements of student control over time, place, path, or place.https://www.learnupon.com/blog/what-is-blended-learning/ Blended learning in my ecosystem I haveContinue reading “Topic 4:Design for online and blended learning”

To share or not share?? What is Open Learning is a learning method for knowledge acquisition based on open educational resources, open-source technologies, and online communities. Open learning aims to allow pupils self-determined, independent, and interest-guided learning. It has been also focussed on collaborative study and social learning open license (creative commons) Creative Commons (CC) is an international non-profit organisation that provides free licencesContinue reading “Topic 2: Open learning”

Initially, I was hard pressed to think of a personal (non ONL) occasion of collaborative learning that moved my own thinking forward. Perhaps because I was hung up on the “learning” aspect and was therefore considering only occasions where I am wearing a “student” hat, which is inevitably more restrictive. If I take a more […]

The possibilities to use different technological solutions for online collaboration are endless. New tools pop up every week. I am currently involved in different communities where they use Teams, Dropbox, GoogleDrive, Box, common hard drive, BlackBoard and more. It is confusing and time-consuming to know where information is placed depending on which project I amContinue reading “Topic 3 – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

In my previous blog entry I mentioned that I have just taught a course “where more than half the participants have invaluable experience and expertise (practitioners working on sustainability issues from different sectors)”. This is because at my business school, we welcome each year 40 new participants in our 2-year study module on ‘Corporate Responsibility’:Continue reading “Enhancing personal and collaborative learning of professionals”

Group-work has not always been something I looked forward to as a student and I took those past negative experiences into account when I planned for group projects for the course I teach. The scenario we were given to discuss for Topic 3 of ONL202 about learning in communities—networked collaborative learning contrasted “group-work mode from… Continue reading Learning collaboratively—online →

Collaborative learning is a widely adopted instructional method for learners across all ages, be it in Schools, Institutes of Higher Learning and even in the workplace. Moving away from the traditional passive learning environments in which the teacher conveys knowledge and the student responds (Chen, 2009), collaborative learning facilitate learners to interact, explore and collaborate …

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