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Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacy

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Zeehan Jaafar

The focus for the first two weeks of the ONL course was to explore how people use digital spaces. The terms ‘Digital Natives’ and ‘Digital Immigrants’ were popularised by Marc Prensky in an article published in 2001. The former describes people born after, or grew up in, the digital age and who are ‘plugged in’Continue reading “Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacy”

Scaffolding for a solid start

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Lena Örnberg

Why is it so important to plan and arrange for a good start? There are many good reasons, and one of them is that a successful university education is very much about relations. To build sustainable relations and a sense of belonging you may also need support and a context. A sense of security willContinue reading “Scaffolding for a solid start”

Sparking an exciting and full of opportunities learning journey …

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Maya Hoveskog

With one day left of 2020 and the ONL202 course completed, in this post I look back to summarize and critically reflect on my learning and development thanks to the course. In a nutshell, it could be described in a few words – modelling practice, nudging, rewarding, fun, confidence, reflection. The most important experience fromContinue reading “Sparking an exciting and full of opportunities learning journey …”

Challenges when designing for online and blended learning

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Maya Hoveskog

The key question that we faced during this topic in the course is how to organize and nurture a process to creating a meaningful learning experience. The answer was through community of inquiry (CoI) and its three interdependent presences – social, cognitive and teaching. Figure 1 visualizes the basic idea of this concept. Fiock (2020)Continue reading “Challenges when designing for online and blended learning”

Looking ahead (ONL202 Topic 5)

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Mohit Gupta

The last topic in the ONL202 course was focussed on reflecting on the journey in the course. The course provided an enriching experience of various aspects of online teaching as well as learning. As it was highlighted several times that ‘the course is the course’, the activities were highly student oriented with few lectures (moreContinue reading “Looking ahead (ONL202 Topic 5)”

Do we need to think differently? (ONL202 Topic 4)

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Mohit Gupta

The topic 4 in ONL202 was about designing your course and teaching for online and blended learning environments. Moving away from the classical campus-based teaching towards online and blended learning forms has been challenging for most of us, especially during the year 2020 where everyone was forced to do this overnight. At our university, IContinue reading “Do we need to think differently? (ONL202 Topic 4)”

ONL202 #PBL07 Lessons Learnt

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Amin Maghsoudi

So, my overall reflection about this course was positive. During the last topic and meeting, I still learnt new things. I like the idea of “Edaward do Bonos Thinking Hat” recommend by Lena for this topic. In De Bono book early 1970, there are 6 thinking hats with blue, white, red, blacck, yellow and greenContinue reading “ONL202 #PBL07 Lessons Learnt”

ONL 202 #PBL07 Designing

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Amin Maghsoudi

Topic 4, I guess it is the cool topic as it deals with the designation, imagination and drawing something creative to be interesting for students. Mostly, students, espcially in Nordic countries are somehow shy, and they are not really into open their camer for the others during the class. So, the interaction is very challengingContinue reading “ONL 202 #PBL07 Designing”

ONL202 PBL07

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Amin Maghsoudi

Learning in Communities This topic was one of the fruitful topic during the course. Together with another member, Amanda based in South Africa, we led the topic. Over that , we have discussed though using different platforms including Padlet, whiteboard, Teams, Watsapp and etc. Each inlcudes specific characteristics with various features. This topic helped meContinue reading “ONL202 PBL07”

#ONL202 BPL07

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Amin Maghsoudi

Open_Learning Openness somehow depends on personal characteristics. But, it can be improved time by time, particularly during this #COVID-19 outbreak. We need to trust and share with each other the available data, information and knowledge. During this topic, we brainstormed the ideas circling around the Fish scenario. I summarized some of thoughts as below: Amin’sContinue reading “#ONL202 BPL07”

#ONL202 PBL07

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Amin Maghsoudi

Online participation and Digital literacies The ice breaking session is always coming with fear and lack of trust. It was the first time, we met with the people with each from different country and with different background. Icebreaking has started by Patrik as the coordinator and then led by Karin and Lena. I like theContinue reading “#ONL202 PBL07”

Lessons learnt and confidence boosted

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Pia Johansson

The final topic 5 of #ONL202 is lessons learnt during the course. I have found the course extremely valuable: It was very interesting to try out the PBL learning activities as a student The course was very rich in information on online teaching pedagogy, particularly for me that have been out of teaching for 7-8Fortsätt läsa “Lessons learnt and confidence boosted”