I imagined my final blog in the style of a flippant and fictional interview with Lars, Alistair and Jörg sitting in front of me asking questions over many cups of Oolong tea and scrumptious scones with strawberry jam. ********Alistair: Good …
A course, a community, an approach
I imagined my final blog in the style of a flippant and fictional interview with Lars, Alistair and Jörg sitting in front of me asking questions over many cups of Oolong tea and scrumptious scones with strawberry jam. ********Alistair: Good …
Studio/bedroom. Photograph © 2021 Esa Ruskeepää.The fifth and final topic of the ONL 211 course was focused on future practice. What effect has the learning experience from this course had on my development and my own professional practice?I learned to…
Topic 3 became a real challenge for our group and what could have ended up as collaboration resulted in something vague. Even though no real collaborative learning took place, I started to think about group dynamics, how to improve teamwork, and tie groups together. Why do some groups work better together? Is it well-defined roles, … Continue reading “Togetherness”
Topic 3 became a real challenge for our group and what could have ended up as collaboration resulted in something vague. Even though no real collaborative learning took place, I started to think about group dynamics, how to improve teamwork, and tie groups together. Why do some groups work better together? Is it well-defined roles, … Continue reading “Togetherness”
SpaceX Starship SN11 prototype at Boca Chica, Texas (2021).The fourth topic of the ONL 211 course was focused on designing for online and blended learning environment.There are two ways to approach this: a course can be taught online an…
The best thing about the ONL course has been to share experiences with other course participants. It has also been good to test many new digital tools that can work in online teaching and in blended learning. For me, the most rewarding topic was “Blended learning”. I think it is an interesting topic and the… Fortsätt läsa Topic 5: Summary of the ONL course
Probably the best way to go! Welcoming technology without a goodbye to a must in physical engagement.
Carefully planned curriculum which utilises appropriate tools allow asynchronous sharing, teaching and learning. It allows modern learners to lea…
Here are (some of all) my thougts on the forth topic of ONL211: Doing by learning as an opposite of learning by doing. In early 2o20, when the news about a strange virus called Covid-something I was just starting up a course for adult learners via the commissioned training center at our university. The course … Fortsätt läsa “Topic 4- Design for online and blended learning”
Prior to Covid-19, who would have thought that there was a whole different world of teaching available in the technology space. Educators were set in their ways accustomed to face to face contact classes, being able to make eye contact with students, interpret body language and use simple practices without needing much from the student.Continue reading “A WHOLE NEW DIGITAL WORLD -TOPIC 1 DIGITAL LITERACY”
In this closing post I’d like to share some of my final comments on my amazing and unbelievable journey as a participant of ONL211. The past 2 weeks of our activities had been very important for me as the part of ONL211 journey, as we’ve focused on rethinking how to design online, traditional and blended […]
The Topic 4, Design for online and blended learning, encountered me in my worst period regarding online learning. I have been teaching online since summer 2020 (North hemisphere) and the last two weeks have been extremely hard regarding time planning. I’m exhausted, besides my teaching duties, my research is extremely important in terms of myContinue reading “Topic 4 and the big battle between online and on-campus”
In my blog on topic 1 I cited Herbert Simon who stated that learning is basically what learners think and do, there is nothing else. And according to Ambrose et al. (2010), learning is a process that encompasses change and has to be done by oneself. If I take these two statements and reflect this“Learning happens, because the right people are together working on the right stuff.” weiterlesen