So this sums up a very helpful course about online collaborative learning! I found many aspects from the course very useful for my own work, in both teaching and for collaborative research work. Three take-aways thus far are: 1) The vast diversity…

The topic for this week, was on  how to support and design for learning. I very much enjoyed the very hands-on approach of this topic, the clarification of different learning types and how they link to a diversity of teaching methods. I espec…

This week gave us an introduction to how online communities learn, different phases and challenges to online collaboration, and different ways to address these. I found this topic not only interesting, but also timely in the development of our own inte…

The second topic for this course made a great introduction to the challenges of “sharing and openness”. I very much liked David Wiley’s TEDx lecture where he explores the features of open learning and education. Here I want to reflect on advantage…

The first topic for the course was “Online participation & digital literacies”. Here I want to share a few reflections about my own digital literacy, and the way that I try to use it in my own work as a researcher and teacher.I would normally look …

I have a background in educational psychology and I have being teaching  the same since 2011 to 2017 before I went  for masters in information studies, where I am currently working as an academic librarian at the Muhimbili  university of…

This was topic 3 that proved an initial challenge to get deep into the subject matter.  Due to change in time zones I missed the webinar and the tweet chat (this latter due to the late hour).  I later accessed the recording twice but it was not the same as attending the synchronous event. This … Continue reading Topic 3 Learning in Communities; Networked Collaborative Learning. →