Topic 3

Initially the theme of this topic seemed a bit off to me, and I found it hard to see the relevance. However, discussing the concept of collaborative learning proved very valuable, and having thought about this and related it to cooperative activities has actually proved useful already. Though I still don’t think that we shouldContinue reading “Topic 3”

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Topic 4: Emotional Presence in Collaborative Learning

This blog explores the effects of emotions on collaborative learning in the Problem Based Learning groups. In this regard, the blog revisits the hierarchical iterative fork-join collaboration model and superimposes this model with the effect of emotions. Let’s start by looking at the vital prerequisites to a successful educational experience in higher education, which isContinue reading “Topic 4: Emotional Presence in Collaborative Learning”

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Design for online and blended learning

How emotional presence influence our teaching? According to Martha Cleveland-Innes emotion could be considered the 4th presence in education and learning, in addition to the teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence. For me, definitely emotion is driving most of our decisions, in life in general and at work as well. We are, however, trainedPoursuivre la lecture de “Design for online and blended learning”

Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning

The topic Design for online and blended learning have been the most challenging topic so far in the ONL-course. Even if I have experienced both being a student and a teacher in online and blended learning, I am still struggling when taking the position to guide colleagues in re(designing) their courses for online or blended. … Continue reading Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning