Networked collaborative learning

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 […]

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 […]

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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

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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

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 […]