The pandemic came fast and unexpected, the digitalization of education was there but accelerated in a process no one could…

A course, a community, an approach
The pandemic came fast and unexpected, the digitalization of education was there but accelerated in a process no one could…
I reflected quite a lot on the frustrations of both teachers and students in online collaborative learning. I started by reading quite an interesting paper [1] that outlined some of these issues: Even if some of these issues seem generic enough to be applied to any collaborative learning tasks, I think many of the challenges […]
For the third topic, learning in communities, networked collaborative learning, again the group work started with trying to define the different terms. What is a group, a set, a network, a community? Are all of us actually a part of all these different types of social constructs? And how do we use them every day […]
The picture of a despot -someone telling his/her followers how to do things , understand the world and follow is…
I reflected quite a lot on this topic, especially when thinking of the courses I teach. My main thoughts here relate to opening educational resources with other teachers and students. The idea is to help teachers get easy access to high-quality material. In the end the main goal is to reduce workload for teachers and […]
Over the last two weeks we’ve worked on open education and the whole concept of openness. At times I’ve felt the more we talked about it, the more difficult it became to define what open education actually means. Maha Bali’s webinar actually really opened my eyes to the social justice point, the global issues when […]
Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” Einstein means in whatever situation we…
We had quite a lot of nice discussions in our group related to online spaces and digital literacy in general. I took from this many ideas related to awareness of unsafe space and behavior and awareness of unsafe behavior – working agreement as well as the multi-disciplinary nature of digital literacy by Bridging the digital […]
Digital Competency and the diagnosis of it is complex.So I spent some time looking at the DigComp framework and I realised that the issue with Digital Competency and the definitions of the different levels of competencies and I cannot help but fe…
Scenario: “I have just signed up to do an online course and I am excited to be there. But I […]
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I was really interested in hearing different perspectives of this topic in my PBL group as I have just started to work in a project concerning participation of students and teachers in digital learning environments at university. We realized quickly during our discussions in the group how important it is to define and grasp the […]
I’m still thrilled by our PBL group meeting this morning where we continued to work on our Miro board. We decided to just record our conversation about the board for this week’s group work. I’ll take some time tomorrow to write my reflection as today I’m just jumping from meeting to meeting. But I can […]