During topic 3 we were reflecting on how we can make students learning improve using group work and collaboration assignment. I have to say that “my” group is reallt creative and during the first meetings we came up with a lot of different ideas and angels on the topic. To try and struvture the contributions […]
Feels a bit empty
Life is full of meetings with new people and it always feels a bit sad when you split up and continue in life. It is amazing how technology makes it possible to form distributed groups and will I honestly miss my PBL group and our weekly meetings. During out last week we were asked to […]
Digital Literacies: Before and After
Digital Literacies: Before and After In this post I will like to take a light-hearted approach towards Digital Literacy. My PBL group discussed many approaches and its consequences of becoming digitally literate. Based on the first sc…
Digital Literacies: Before and After
Digital Literacies: Before and After In this post I will like to take a light-hearted approach towards Digital Literacy. My PBL group discussed many approaches and its consequences of becoming digitally literate. Based on the first sc…
Teaching Students to Drive their Brains!!!
Teaching Students to Drive their Brains!!!This blog is a product of the intense discussion and feedback of my PBL group on Topic 4. Our PBL’s discussion has been published here. I thoroughly enjoyed myself working on meta-cognition i…
Time flies
Last week we handed in Topic 4, Design for online and blended learning. My group did choose to focus on community building and how to get the students engaged in group work. One of our group members came up with an interesting article on community building: https://ctl.columbia.edu/resources-and-technology/teaching-with-technology/teaching-online/community-building/ From this article we got a lot of […]
Community Building in the Classroom
How wonderful it is to chance on an excellent resource! And this I did on community building in the classroom. I am cognizant of the Community of Inquiry (cite) model that is used to design blended learning. Here are the seven principles behind the model (Garrison, 2017, p. 112): 1) Plan for the creation of … Continue reading Community Building in the Classroom
Social Learning
I came across the idea of connectivism (Siemens, 2004) many years ago in a graduate class. In this topic, I am reviewing the definition. Connectivism suggests that learning is a social connected process: 1. learning as a network forming process 2. networked learning involves forming conceptual connections 3. networked learning through external social spaces (social … Continue reading Social Learning
Slow down in order to go quickly!!!
(source: https://focusresourcesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tortoise-hare.jpg)As topic 3 unfolded in our PBL group, it became quite clear that collaboration entails many aspects of learning. To view our flowerbed using the Lotus Blosso…
Open Education in Higher Education & Open Pedagogy
Attitude towards openness Of the topics discussed by PBL08, one of them was: “what does open mean to us? How open would we be in sharing our resources?” Although the modern open education movement started in 2002, this remains a common question from faculty. Open education is founded on foundations of openness, sharing, critical pedagogy, … Continue reading Open Education in Higher Education & Open Pedagogy
Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness
What does open education mean to you? What are you willing to share openly? and with whom? What are the limitations to openness? Starting point is that I am very open as a person. I like to say what I mean without wrapping it into a lot of nonsense – keep the message and intentionsContinue reading “Topic 2: Open Learning – Sharing and Openness”
Reflection week
A well needed week to catch up and analyze what we have done. Our previous topic was handed in less than a week ago, this time we used a padlet as the tool for our contribution. Our last topic “Open learning – sharing and openness” started by a scenario that we all read individually. When […]