Hello to all! The aim of this blog is to reflect about my overall ONL course experience. During this short ONL trip, I learned a lot of things. But the first thing that comes to my mind is that I learned to be more open: More open to share my expertise online (via blogs), more […]
Optimatzing campus teaching in the aftermath of Emergency Remote Teaching
The interest in facilitating digitization in higher education has been the hallmark of the past decade. Before the eruption of the pandemic, there had been a slow but steady progression toward digital learning. Many funds were dedicated to research on integrating digital resources in the classroom and the role they play in revolutionizing education. The […]
Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning (2nd – 15th May)
Since the six of us have already been the moderators for Topics 1, 2 and 3, for this Topic 4 it was decided that four different people would moderate it, having the remaining two people as backup. I was assigned to facilitate the first meeting, trying to gather the first impressions of the group about […]
Reflections about blended learning
Hello to all, topic 4 is about the design for online and blended learning. Blended learning is an education model in which students learn via online media/tools as well as traditional tools.There is a difference between blended and hybrid learning, since in hybrid learning, the online learners and the in-person learners are/can be different, while […]
Reflections on digital literacies and online participations
The world has changed significantly over the last 15 years. Technology has spread substantially in many sectors including education. I remember my self before 2007, when I was in my final year at the high school, I barely had a cell phone with very basic features and only was using the computer of my sister […]
Reflections on my ONL journey
The ONL experience was a great opportunity to learn the PBL approach. It now comes to an end, but it shapes the beginning of many things in my professional experience. I was very glad to be part of the group 10, where we spend almost 3 months discussing interesting topics, learning many tools to produce […]
Reflections on Learning in communities, Network collaborative learning
In this reflection, I will talk about my own experience in running virtual exchange programs at the higher institute of Technological Studies of Beja, Tunisia with partner universities and how the ONL experience affected my ability to facilitate virtual exchange programs. But first, I want to highlight the importance of learning in communities. In my […]
Reflections on open learning and sharing, and openness
I am a person who aways believes that when acting together, we are stronger and richer. I went through an educational system which iss somehow very classic and traditional. In primary, middle, and high schools, teachers used to teach us using the textbooks designed and written by the ministry of education. Teachers had to follow […]
Reflections on the design for online and blended learning
In the topic 4, I learnt many new concepts related to online and blended learning. I was confused about many of them. For example, I never heard that there exist some models that we can use to design a blended course and that designing a course can be different in emergency situations compared to normal […]
The end of a new beginning: Where to start…
Well, I said it never really ends, so this is me starting at the beginning again. But this time a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit freer, a little bit clearer… Or whatever thought-provoking cliche you think would fit in th…
Reflections on Topic 5: What begins must end…
…Or must it? What if it was just a realization that it was always there,Nesting in the soil, waiting for the right foundations for its fruit to bareLike a tree breaking free of the ground only to dig deeper and deeperIts root spread around as it seep…
What have I learned about Open Networked Learning?
During this course, I learned from my fellow students so much about open networked learning, blended learning and how to use digital tools in an effective way. As a teacher and researcher, tackling the challenges posed to software engineering and computer science requires the combination of both the traditional roles of researcher and teacher. And […]