Essential elements in digital literacy

Posted on by Farinaz Ebrahimian

For the first topic related to digital literacy, in group 7 we talked about the seven elements of digital literacy and how we as teachers can implement these elements in our teaching. The first element, media literacy, concerns about critically reading and creatively producing academic and professional communications in a range of media. For this […]

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Topic 1 – Digital Literacy

Posted on by Valentin Scheiff

What is it about? This first topic deals with Digital literacy based on the following Scenario: “I have just signed up to do an online course and I am excited to be there. But I have little experience with online courses and it feels really challenging to get started to connect and find my way […]

Topic 1

Posted on by Larissa Mickwitz

Reflection topic 1, Digital litteracy   In our PBL-group we discussed the concept of digital literacy and how the understanding of the meaning of the concept has changed over time. We all contributed by reflecting upon a case where a person chare her/his feelings of insecurity vis a vi peers in a online course (like […]

Digital literacy & pedagogy

Posted on by Visa Penttilä

I have not had a clear perception of my own digital literacy – I have used the tools university has provided me with without much effort, at times reading through manuals and searching for solutions if problems have arisen. The metaphor of visitors and residents by White and Le Cornu (2011) provided me with a […]

Hej from Sweden (and from France)

Posted on by Valentin Scheiff

Hej Hej, My name is Valentin, and I am coming from France (Toulouse). I arrived in Sweden at Mälardalen university in 2019 after my PhD dealing with nuclear safety, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. I continue in a postdoc also in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. Shortly I am making and studying bubbles in many […]

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ONL222 – Summing It Up!

Posted on by Helen Chen

My key takeaways: Group Dynamics – Know how to satisfactorily reconcile different perspectives especially if a group member takes a strong stand. I observed three approaches. A)  As the stakes were low in the course, there was nothing to gain by disagreeing which might create unpleasantness and tension. Member A always conceded and went with […]

Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on by Florentina Gartmann

ONL222 Archipelago Through my participation in OLN 222, I was able to learn a lot. The interesting approach about this online course is that you don’t just learn how to do it, but you become very active yourself with the different topics and assignments. You really experience how open networked learning works (and where the […]

Take aways…

Posted on by Thomas Blom

One insight after practically attending the ONL course is who important it is to spend time to try to get a shared understanding of the scenario or the topic to investigate. If the group does not have a shared understanding, it is easy to either try to cover too much – try to do or […]

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Topic 4: Blended Learning

Posted on by Helen Chen

What is blended learning? We grappled with the definition and concluded that it could be ‘anything we want it to be’. To me, blended learning is like a smoothie – a mixture of several nutritious ingredients carefully titrated (balanced) to cater to customers’ preferences and optimize health benefits. The product is constrained by the ingredients […]