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Conflicts within Learning Collaborative Groups

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Nesrin Khankan

Creative educators establish quality learning environments that allow students to engage in collaborative learning activities within their assigned groups. Such environments contribute to better learning outcomes, including development of higher order thinking skills. Students can be heterogeneous in their outlooks to collaborative activities, especially when participants of diverse cultures and attitudes are connected in computer-basedContinue reading “Conflicts within Learning Collaborative Groups”

Drug synergy and collaborative learning (Topic 3)

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

What’s drug synergy got to do with collaborative learning? The answer is that they are all about working together for the same purpose. Collaborative work creates synergism (potentiation). Synergism comes from the Greek word “synergos” meaning working together. According to the dictionary (Merriam-Webster) definition of synergism, it is “interaction of discrete agencies (such as industrialOkumaya devam et “Drug synergy and collaborative learning (Topic 3)”

Reflection on Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Matti Karlsson

Dear blog and readers, During the last two weeks, we have discussed collaborative learning from many viewpoints in our PBL group. I have enjoyed the discussions and it has been interesting to learn from other teachers who come from different countries and different learning environments. Surprisingly, the challenges and opportunities of collaborative learning seem to … Continue reading Reflection on Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Collaborative learning – dream or nightmare?

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Lars Lindhagen

Group work. I guess the very phrase stirs emotions in most people. Perhaps memories of embarrassed pupils reading from papers with text copied verbatim from a textbook, while staring at their feet. What is the reason for such seemingly pointless activities? Is there any secret wisdom that only teachers possess? Maybe. From the teacher’s perspective,Continue reading “Collaborative learning – dream or nightmare?”

On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Daniel de Augustinis

As expected from its title, this paper by Wenger tells the history of a concept, including its main criticisms. Wenger promises to resort to a group of authors coming from different traditions. whom he groups together as “social theory”. These authors include French philosopher Michel Foucault, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, American social anthropologist Jean Lave,Continue reading “On “Communities of Practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept” (Wenger, 2010).”

Openness in education

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) revolutionize the concept of higher education. The courses do not have to squeeze the learning environment within the classrooms anymore. The value of a MOOC for student learning depends on how learning processes are facilitated, stimulated and assessed. However, before considering these elements of MOOC, joining an online course shouldOkumaya devam et “Openness in education”

TOPIC 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

I truly enjoyed Topic 2 more than that of Topic 1. This is probably because of we are getting used to the course’s system and got to know each other better in the group 6 as well as Alastair Creelman, a good facilitator. I spent much more time for this course than I thought IOkumaya devam et “TOPIC 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”

Topic 1: A course, a community, an approach?

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Osman KUCUK

I am a professor, teaching in a vet school in Turkey (Erciyes University). It has been about 20 years since I started teaching animal nutrition classes. After all these years, I thought I should justify my classical teaching techniques and the meet the needs of students in learning process through 21th century. Changing became myOkumaya devam et “Topic 1: A course, a community, an approach?”

how online visits can support knowledge construction

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Cinzia Gabellini

On the first topic of the open networked learning ONL201 course we are ask to think about our engagements online. Nowadays, almost everyone uses online services, e.g. look up information or buy products. Thereby we use online services differently, depending … Continue reading →

Work Packet 1

Posted on April 10, 2020May 25, 2020 by aijin

?WHY?I have decided to sign up for the Open Networked Learning Course….. WHY WHY WHYWell…… A friend-colleague of mind did the course and said she it stretched her as she needed to learn many new things. She is a spatial statistician….. so it m…

Can teachers find their way to go freely open?

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Nesrin Khankan

Teachers’ Adoption of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education Despite the availability of open educational resources (OERs), users are still faced with barriers to accessing resources. When I started learning about open education and OERs, the most frequent vocabulary I have encountered were confusing, debate (dispute, argue, controversial) and strive (struggle, pursue). Amazing, isn’t it?Continue reading “Can teachers find their way to go freely open?”

Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Jess

Image by Mark Mags from Pixabay Topic 2 proved to be an interesting one for me – I enjoyed being able to share areas where I had some experience, and it was wonderful to learn from my PBL group members about areas of expertise and experience they had. I was able to explore even further … Continue reading Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness