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Teachers and students: all learners!

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

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

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

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 […]

ONL221 Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness

Posted on by Shelley Guyton

This has been a fascinating topic. In our PBL group discussions, we have considered open learning as a concept or aspiration or even fear from multiple perspectives–institutional, teacher, learner and more. We also emphasized the directions in conversations on open learning that split into more pedagogical focus and more social justice oriented focus. While my […]

Openness Ltd.

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

Among the multiple interpretations of openness, such as generosity, free access, availability, given during Maha Bali’s webinar [5], I like very much openness as “the will to share” and the fact that “the will to share” is independent if it occurs online or face-to-face. I like this definition because teaching specifically is, in my opinion, […]

Residents and visitors in the era of digital literacy

Posted on by Luciana Provenzano

After two long weeks talking and reflecting upon digital literacy and residents-visitors metaphor [1], a question comes to my mind: is there any advantage to be resident to survive in the era of digital literacy? or, is it enough to be a visitor to merely survive? The term digital literacy, coined by Paul Gilster, refers […]

BP2 – Sharing and Openness

Posted on by Augusto Cannone Falchetto

I am working in civil engineering education and research and within this field in a small area concerning highway engineering. That means road, street, materials. etc. I am highlighting this as my field of expertise is almost a niche with all the consequences associated with it, also in teaching and learning. As a teacher (and […]

ONL221 Topic 1: Online Learning and Digital Literacies

Posted on by Shelley Guyton

Topic 1 Online Participation and Digital Literacies was an interesting and appropriate topic to start the ONL course. As my PBL group got to discussing the scenario, we found ourselves questioning who was having an issue with online learning in the scenario–the student or the teacher. This helped me reflect on online learning as shared […]

ONL221 Topic 1: Online Learning and Digital Literacies

Posted on by Shelley Guyton

Topic 1 Online Participation and Digital Literacies was an interesting and appropriate topic to start the ONL course. As my PBL group got to discussing the scenario, we found ourselves questioning who was having an issue with online learning in the scenario–the student or the teacher. This helped me reflect on online learning as shared […]