Lessons learned – ONL191

The #ONL191 course has come to an end, and we have been asked to reflect on what we have learned, and what we will do differently in the future, as a result of the course. What have I learned? I have seen that online-only courses can work, and I have tried to identify the areas […]

What I’ve learned

1. I feel like a digital resident, and I think of the online sphere as a world in it’s own, in which I live as much as the real world. I think of social media for example as communities in a very tangible way, like places I visit.2. Creating a sense of…

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Tuning intuition in online teaching

For our group work this time round, we prepared a mock syllabus for a course on Online Collaborative Writing, peppered with roll-over points describing the thinking behind our choices, using a tool called Thinglink.  This helped to concentrate our thoughts on underlying design issues, which have been laid out clearly by my colleague Sebastian Schwede. […]