BP4 – Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Augusto Cannone Falchetto

First of all, this is a very personal perspective and a particular experience. Second, I feel that this blog is somewhat the second part of my previous blog – BP3 -Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. Third, let me give context to my post by starting from the course I have just completed teaching […]

Openness in Learning and Education

Posted on by Emina Obarcanin

My own practice of teaching and education students remains very closed due to the closed and strict university procedures and guidelines. This topic led me to reflect: Is it good to be an open educator and make your lectures available for everybody? Or is it better to be secretive and hide and keep your lectures […]

Course design – to blend or not to blend?

Posted on by Susanne Quintes

Again, group sessions for this topic included a lot of discussions about terminology. What is blended learning? What is online teaching? Does blending always mean having online and offline courses?However, everybody immediately knew whats’s meant by emergency remote teaching, the term says it all. The sudden switch to online teaching and learning was especially hard […]

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Topic 3 – Collaborative Learning

Posted on by Ares Gomez

… where we did everything but work collaboratively. This is end of topic 3 in the ONL221 course, and it was hard. Let me start from the beginning… Topic 3 was focused on Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. As its name implies, this was about our experience working in teams or having our […]

Teaching Presence

Posted on by Nina Venkataraman

     There are three types of presences articulated in Garrison, Anderson, and Archer’s (2000), Community of Inquiry model (CoI). They are social which is learner focused and is identified as the ability of students to project thems…

Designing for the student, is key to succeed

Posted on by Lejla Islami

Finally, the topic I have been looking for since the beginning of this course is here, designing an online course. Honestly, I am equally unsure (or even more) on how to approach it as I was with the previous topics. There are many reasons for that and responsibility is one of them. I have been […]

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Topic 4 Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Susanna Fabricius

The concept of Blended Learning has made its entry into the education industry in recent years before the Covid-19 crisis. I don´t think it is anything new in terms of education, as most of what we’ve gone in the way of education has been more or less “blended”. No training is based solely on lectures, […]