Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

I teach and electromagnetic theory course during the fall every year. The course is best described as “intermediate” and is compulsory for my department’s masters degree program. The class consists of applications of mathematics to specific problems in electrical engineering.  The best teaching of this subject I have experienced is where an engaging personality writesContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning”

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Some reflection for topic 3. I find all three suggestions interesting and relevant to my own experience so I will respond to all three: An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward One occasion that really struck me happened during my postdoc in the context of a research manuscript.Continue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

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A transformational journey – my final course reflections about the online networked learning course “ONL202”

I am very surprised how deep, and evidence based my understanding was developed of what enables purposeful and meaningful learning processes and how it can be initiated, designed and supported in an online environment. The course was a door-opener for new concepts and ways of teaching concepts, to an expanding pedagogical competence and a greatContinue reading A transformational journey – my final course reflections about the online networked learning course “ONL202”

Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

The Open Networked Learning-course, or the ONL, has given me a second possibility to engage in a PBL-teaching format as a student. The first time I engaged in PBL was 25 years ago, in the nursing programme at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between these educational experiences, I wrote a doctoral thesis concerning integrated teaching that IFortsätt läsa “Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

[Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

Firstly, I must admit that it was so unexpected to hear the webinar about Community of Inquiry (CoI) as a framework for designing flexible, networked and community-based learning, under ‘Blended learning’. I thought I would hear more directly relevant issues regarding blended learning. But very soon, I realised that it IS important to understand the…Read more [Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty