Reflect on your current practice and reason about possibilities for development of online and blended learning designs. I’ve been working on developing a Community of Inquiry (CoI) model for my courses for some time – or Collaborative Inquiry as it… Continue Reading →
Topic 4 Design for online and blended learning
The concept of Blended Learning has made its entry into the education industry in recent years before the Covid-19 crisis. I don´t think it is anything new in terms of education, as most of what we’ve gone in the way of education has been more or less “blended”. No training is based solely on lectures, […]
Liberating structures
ONL221 is an online course on open networked learning. These reflections are part of the course assignment. This one is on topic two – sharing and openness . Suggestions for reflections – openness in your own practice “You could be observant to have your talking time more evenly distributed …” one of our facilitators mentioned … Fortsätt läsa ”Liberating structures”
Collective Harvesting from Story Telling: Hidden Value Made Visible
One of our group members was asked to share her understanding and experiences about collaboration in a narrative form. The rest of us in the group listened and perhaps tried to understand how close or how far we are from her experiences a…
Harvesting
The journey through Theme 3 was tremendously rich (knowledge-wise), strenuous (I was one of the moderators), and (emotionally) intense….
Topic 3 – Consider frustration as a friend
Consider frustration as a friend. CHARACTER #1: The Host CHARACTER #2: PLN (Personal Learning Network) An Invisible Character CHARACTER #3: LMS (Learning Management System) CHARACTER #4: Workerist (Student) CHARACTER #5: Frustration (Student) CHARACTER #6: Lurker (Student) CHARACTER #7: Commitment-phobe (Student)… Continue Reading →
Topic 3 Learning in Communities
This blog has been inspired by Kay Oddones (2022) webinar on personal learning networks (PLN). I remember someone wise saying that learning only happens when you share it with someone. According to Davis White (20229 Visitors and Residents continuum Networked Learning is at the residents end of the continuum. This makes me reflect where I […]
Reimagining Openness-A Case Study
Let us reimagine openness: Case study-The women of Kookal Before my present adventure as a Lecturer at National University of Singapore, I lived for five years in a small hamlet nestled…
Topic 2 Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
Openness is a noble word. This topic is indeed very actual not least due to the two years Covid-19 isolation. This is a very complex topic, we seem to relate to it through our own (cultural background) lenses. What are the motivators of being open? What about the quality of open education? These are matters […]
Topic 2: Open Learning – a digital ecology?
Before I fell in love with design and academia, my first love (which is still present) is the world around me. I take delight in simply…
Topic 1: What would Morpheus say?
“Let me tell you why you’re here. You are here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it.” – Morpheus…
Bitten off more than I can chew?
An informal intro In academia there is a real problem with imposter syndrome, and that is exactly where I found myself almost 4 weeks…