When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

We are more than halfway through the ONL212 course now, and while I still find the course highly interesting, I am definitely feeling tired. My first thought was to point the finger at the amount of group work required by ONL. We have group meetings twice a week and group projects every two weeks on … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 3: Learning in communities – online fatigue and improving my active participation”

We did not have any group meetings or events this last week for ONL because it was ‘reflection week’. Much needed for sure as there has been much to think about after each ONL group meeting or webinar. I have also been in a particularly reflective mood, wrestling with conflicting thoughts about the direction of … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Reflection Week: Listening and Play”