To have a successful distance learning for students, students need to have a sense of feeling immersed in the “distance learning environment”. One thing that came to my mind is that an immersed experience through gamification might be an effective way of transfer knowledge, where course materials can be broken down into scenarios, case studies, …

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As I was preparing for this week’s topic – Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning, I came across with a quote “ “Currently, online collaborative learning tends to focus on the cognitive process by emphasizing task-oriented communication, while assuming that the social dimension will occur automatically via communicative technologies (Kreijns et al., 2003). However, …

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Time flies, and we are almost at the end of the Topic 2 now. In this topic we were asked to explore the benefits and challenges of openness in education and learning. It is a very interesting topic indeed. As all educational resources, there are advantages and disadvantages to Open Education Resources. Especially when we …

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