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Teachers and students: all learners!

In this post, I’m going to investigate whether the exercise sessions in one of my courses can be considered as collaborative learning experiences or not. In the ocean of possible definitions of collaborative learning, I choose the following definition, or better, explanation of collaborative learning: “students work together in small groups toward a common goal. […]

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Support for engagement

In this post, I write about how the support a teacher may give to students is a valuable way to promote engagement in the course and contribute to collaborative learning. When I think to support, the first thing that comes to my mind is “answering to questions”. But support can be many different things and […]

Week 3: collaboration in teams

What a great topic this was to explore – networked collaborative learning. Collaboration often happens in groups. We know (and maybe some of us also feel that way) that group work is often avoided. There are many reasons for it – and many of them …

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On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 3: Developing teachers’ well-being skills

Third topic of the training was focusing on the teachers’ well-being but also the well-being of the community. This is something I have learned: 1) It was very interesting was to stop and think about what are we talking about when we are talking about well-being. Who’s well-being are we talking about? Is there suchContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 3: Developing teachers’ well-being skills”

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How to make online group work functional and engaging

Topic 3 I have joined quite many group works online, of which a fair amount has been rather bad. One reason for this I think is the fact that teachers have received none or very little education in how to execute group work online. Due to the pandemic teachers all over the world have been […]

Learning in communities versus network learning

When I read for the first time topic 3 title I thought we would share experience about our teaching and learning processes that we conduct in different communities. I suspected that we would talk about teaching young students, adults or adults in their working environment, e.g. a company. This is what I do as a […]