Topic 3: Learning in communities

My personal experience in online collaboration extends to using learning management systems, chat platforms and document sharing platforms (and email). These experiences have always been complemented by having face-to-face meetings from time to time. I used two major platforms to communicate for collaboration with my teaching assistants: WhatsApp and Slack. I find each of themContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities”

Blended bachelor: A collaborative learning experience stretched in time

In this blog post, I have chosen to reflect on an occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved my own thinking forward. In the beginning of 2000 I studied a full-time bachelor programme. It was a campus programme, but because of the subject matter (ICT and learning) many of the courses had elements … Continue reading Blended bachelor: A collaborative learning experience stretched in time

Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning

The topic Design for online and blended learning have been the most challenging topic so far in the ONL-course. Even if I have experienced both being a student and a teacher in online and blended learning, I am still struggling when taking the position to guide colleagues in re(designing) their courses for online or blended. … Continue reading Roads ahead in guiding colleagues about online and blended learning

Public scenes and training arenas – reflections on open and closed technologies for teaching and learning

One main take home message from Topic 2: Open education is that open and closed should be seen as ends on a continuum rather than two fixed categories (we discussed this with Creelman and Oddone during the webinar). If continuing that line of reasoning, it becomes interesting to reflect upon how you position yourself on … Continue reading Public scenes and training arenas – reflections on open and closed technologies for teaching and learning

Topic 1: Online Public Activities

After discussing this topic with my group, I have a few reflections related to three major topics. Firstly, the technical difficulties of using tools in teaching do not seem to be a huge issue once you go through a short initial training period (this is my bias computer scientist’s opinion). The more challenging part would […]