It´s been a great experience to collaborate with my PBL group 10 on various missions throughout the course. With current … Mer
A course, a community, an approach
It´s been a great experience to collaborate with my PBL group 10 on various missions throughout the course. With current … Mer
Designing a course is not only about creating realistic course goals and matching learning activities to those. A major part is to attract and maintain the students’ interest. There has to be something thrilling that awakens their curiosity, a bit like…
This topic has been most favorite for me due to interesting discussions we had in the group on how to engage students. I felt I have been growing quite a lot in terms of knowledge acquired both by the literature and related events but mostly by my group members who have much more experience thanContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning”
Every time I am speaking about the ONL course I tend to say “online” as ONL easily leads to thinking “online”. And that was also my expectation, to learn more about how to teach online. But the most important things that I have learnt are the O and N, that is “open” and “networked”, whichContinue reading “ONL is not “online”, open and networked are the main take-aways”
I am now making the last week of the ONL-course and I will summarize my thoughts. When doing so I will focus on what I have learnt and what I am going to do now with the new tools acquired.So what are the new tools in my toolbox? As I have told you bef…
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As a teacher, I like teaching and learning activities (TLA) that becomes somewhat more personal compared with giving a lecture, i.e. meeting students in seminars (smaller groups) or supervising master thesis students. Hence, I have had some resistance …
When talking about online learning, there is a lot of discussion about the Community of Inquiry framework as a structure for a successful course. This focuses on teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence, with emotional presence introduced as a parallel or fourth presence. The use and embrace of emotions is of course really importantContinue reading “Can we really include social and emotional presence in technical subjects?”
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting measures of social distancing have been a large shock also to the university landscape forcing to switch teachers to pure Online Learning (OL) measures. Currently, OL is like teenage sex. Everyone wants to do it, but no one knows how it works. While OL activities used to be moreContinue reading “The practice of Online Learning”
OK so for this topic I have chosen to reflect on ‘an occasion when real collaborative learning took place that moved your own thinking forward’, as it is aptly put on the ONL page.Although I have experienced some collaborative learning in the past (but…
During the past two weeks of topic 4 (Design for online and blended learning) it is evident that Online learning is something that each and every institution will have to adapt soon or later. For Teachers/Lecturers this can be a demanding task to implement in their teaching and learning pedagogy. I think my PBL Group … Continue reading Reflect on how you can provide support, facilitation and scaffolding for students in online and blended learning environments.
To design for Open learning is a complex task. There are a set of requirements or design attributes that needs to be considered: participatory technology, people openness & trust, accessibility,… But rather than focusing on the technological side or design method, open learning could be viewed as a professional oath, a mission that guides teachersContinue reading “Topic 2: Open learning”