The future of blended learning

The future of higher education is spelled blended learning. At least where we are right now, making a clear distinction between what’s ‘real’ and what’s ‘online’ In the future, this division will most certainly be more blurred as technology will become more integrated in our corporality. Everything will be blended, or perhaps merged, so to […]

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Reflection on Topic 2: Open learning – Sharing and Openess

During the two-week course period for Topic 2, each member of our PBL group investigated the willingness and chanllenges of openness from our own insititution. Here, I would like to share with you my little investigation on Stockholm University. “Since 1878, Stockholm University has been characterized by openness and innovation (www.su.se/english).” Currently, we offer 75 […]

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Collaborate or Cooperate, whichever is best for language learning?

When reading the scenario for this topic, the first thing that came to my mind was the extent to which I am trasnparent in explaining to my students the difference between these two working formats. First things first, the two verbs “to collaborate” and “to cooperate” are often used interchangeably to mean people working jointly […]

Do we need face-to-face education in theoretical subjects?

Blended learning is all about optimizing learning environments and creating the best conditions for learners in their educational processes. And because we are humans, we cannot do without face-to-face teaching. Even though the idea blended learning existed long before the covid-19, the pandemic has forced many teachers to teach in new ways and thus reflect […]

Pedagogy comes first!

Technology has become an indispensable tool in education. Its use transcends those learning platforms that organize the teaching content and is now manifested in many digital resources, such as games, apps, learning channels, etc. All of these and many are often associated with “revolutionized and progressive education”. A quick look at any university platform, the […]

Collaboration – means or end? 

Today, collaboration has become something of a buzzword and used almost dogmatic in many professional sectors. All problems should be solved through collaboration. If organizations just could collaborate better and quit continue their ´siloed´ practices, much would be so much better. In public administration (in which I have worked for almost 10 years), sometimes the […]

Reflection on Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Before the webinar by David White, I watched David’s short video on the concept of Visitors and Residents on YouTube. This seven minutes’ video briefly walked me through the notion of “digital natives” v.s. “digital immigrants” put forward by Pensky (2001), arguments for why this metaphor is flawed and David’s alternative proposal of “Visitors & […]

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Willingness & challenges of open learning

Our university National University of Singapore has offered MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses on two platforms on edX ( https://www.edx.org/school/nus) and Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/nus).  The courses are from different schools and faculties and are offered for free to all. I believe the courses were selected or have some process of approval procedure to publish on […]