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Design for online and blended learning – a challenge and a chance

The forth topic in the ONL202 course, “Design for online and blended learning” has probably been the most comprehensive topic in the whole course and it kind of connects all other topics. It has been a challenge, mainly because I could not dedicate as much time as I had wished for reading and thinking duringContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning – a challenge and a chance”

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Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Before ONL202 and this particular topic, I thought that I was collaborating many times during my life. First as a student, later as a researcher. However, after critically analyzing collaborative learning, I regret to inform myself that I was wrong. Usually we understand collaboration as an interaction between persons with a common goal, possible toContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Topic 5 – Lessons learnt – future practice

The Open Network Course (ONL202) has come to an end. New knowledge and experience have been gained during the course. I will start with commenting my first test post in the blog and thoughts regarding the blogging. This relates also to Topic 1 – Experience from online education, social media and knowledge development. In the […]

Venn diagram of how the ONL202 course incorporates the Community of Inquiry

Learning by Design

A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

This topic was from the beginning quite challenging to grasp, but the book Guide to BLENDED LEARNING written by Martha Cleveland-Innes and Dan Wilton helped to understand the topic. The three models of blended learning discussed in the book are interesting and I believe that model 3 is the one that suits best in these […]