Beyond the learning blog: Key personal takeaways from the ONL course

Posted on by Martin Fougère

The time has now come for a recapitulation of key learnings from the ONL course. In discussing my personal takeaways, I will partially revisit the ‘meta’ mode I started with about what learning blogs might be good for. It now appears to me much more clearly (I was a bit sceptical about learning blogs inContinue reading “Beyond the learning blog: Key personal takeaways from the ONL course”

Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning

Posted on by Hui Zhao

Before the pandemic, I already knew the concept of “blending learning” from a pedagogical course called course design I attended in the beginning of this year. I really like the philosophy behind blending learning. It is useful to deep into the concept of blended learning. According to Garrison & Vaughan (2008), definition of blended learningContinue reading “Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning”

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Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection

Posted on by Bianca Crozier

The idea of online/blended learning was a new concept to me as an educator when it was introduced due to Covid-19, although I had been exposed to online learning as a learner myself through various platforms, the side of an educator was a complete foreign concept. So, moving from a classroom, face-to-face environment to anContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection”

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From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online

Posted on by Susanne Westman

In this blog on topic 4 I will give a short view of the history of Community in Practices and then elaborate a bit about the differences between Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks. Finally, I illuminate some characteristics of a learning community online and reflect upon my PBL groups journey in relation to that.Continue reading “From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online”

Social presence: Making sense of an experienced lack

Posted on by Martin Fougère

When I moved all my courses to fully online as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, I quickly found that something which I could not immediately pinpoint was missing. I noticed that the sense of immediate feedback which I usually get in class was not there when teaching online, especially through a suboptimal tool which doesContinue reading “Social presence: Making sense of an experienced lack”

Opening up the design studies?

Posted on by Maija Fagerlund

I have to admit, that I have never found open learning very intriguing question, and definetely not one related to my field. I had actually never really thought of the subject matter before it was introduced to us as second topic of ONL2020 course, and even then I could not see it having any connection […]

Design for Online & Blended Learning

Posted on by Sonita Jeyapathy

The article Designing a Community of Inquiry in Online Courses (Fiock, H (2020) The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1), 135-153) has been instructive to me. Terminology wise, as set out in the article, “social presence is a theory that explains the ability of people to present themselves as ‘real people’ […]

Topic 5. ONL lessons learnt – future practice and reflections on a very different year

Posted on by Nina Albrecht

A year has past since I experienced the few intense, and very interesting, months together with my PBL-group in ONL192. How little did we know as we met for the last time in December 2019, about the future and the how a lot of the things we hade worked on and discussed during the course, …

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