Experiences with Collaborative Learning

After reading the articles related to Open Networked Learning. I’ve found that the opinion of others reflects my own experience. In my experience, the completion of collaborative tasks meant either very little reflection for my efforts in group-based work or carrying a big portion of group work while others would benefit from my individual effort.Continue reading “Experiences with Collaborative Learning”

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Topic 3 Collaborative learning

Collaboration is hard! Collaboration is teamwork, discussing, participating, disagreeing, agreeing and getting there together. Not one by one.  We all have lots of experience with group work. Most of the time group work equals cooperative work. We divi…

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Diversity and Motivation in Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning is an integral part of university teachers’ work, but also one of the 21st century working life skills that we are trying to teach our students. However, as we all know some learning communities work better than others. While this topic was really interesting and there would be so much to say, I […]

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Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes

First, let’s talk about some risks of openness…. Leraning by doing is a good approach, as they say. However, sometimes, this involves making mistakes along the way. When it comes to issues like using open resources, some caution should be taken. I learned this through my research project once, in a not-so-nice way: During theFortsätt läsa “Learning Open Education Resources by doing…and through mistakes”

Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

Past weeks I have been learning about OER – Open Educational Resources. It is a vast field and OER touches on several aspects within the realm of education. One aspect that caught my interest is how OER challenges the traditional academic publication system. Along with publishing something questions about such as copyright, validity, authority, rigor … Continue reading Open Educational Resources – Rioting the Feodal

I’m all for open education, so why is it so difficult to make my own courses open?

Picture by opensource.com Open educational resources (OER) are “teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.” (BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide). In principle, I support opening education and can immediately think about the various benefits that it offers. However, […]