Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning

Posted on by Hui Zhao

Before the pandemic, I already knew the concept of “blending learning” from a pedagogical course called course design I attended in the beginning of this year. I really like the philosophy behind blending learning. It is useful to deep into the concept of blended learning. According to Garrison & Vaughan (2008), definition of blended learningContinue reading “Topic 4: Developing community of inquiry in blended learning”

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Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection

Posted on by Bianca Crozier

The idea of online/blended learning was a new concept to me as an educator when it was introduced due to Covid-19, although I had been exposed to online learning as a learner myself through various platforms, the side of an educator was a complete foreign concept. So, moving from a classroom, face-to-face environment to anContinue reading “Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning – Reflection”

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From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online

Posted on by Susanne Westman

In this blog on topic 4 I will give a short view of the history of Community in Practices and then elaborate a bit about the differences between Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks. Finally, I illuminate some characteristics of a learning community online and reflect upon my PBL groups journey in relation to that.Continue reading “From Community of Practices to Learning communities and networks online”

Social presence: Making sense of an experienced lack

Posted on by Martin Fougère

When I moved all my courses to fully online as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, I quickly found that something which I could not immediately pinpoint was missing. I noticed that the sense of immediate feedback which I usually get in class was not there when teaching online, especially through a suboptimal tool which doesContinue reading “Social presence: Making sense of an experienced lack”

Opening up the design studies?

Posted on by Maija Fagerlund

I have to admit, that I have never found open learning very intriguing question, and definetely not one related to my field. I had actually never really thought of the subject matter before it was introduced to us as second topic of ONL2020 course, and even then I could not see it having any connection […]

Design for Online & Blended Learning

Posted on by Sonita Jeyapathy

The article Designing a Community of Inquiry in Online Courses (Fiock, H (2020) The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1), 135-153) has been instructive to me. Terminology wise, as set out in the article, “social presence is a theory that explains the ability of people to present themselves as ‘real people’ […]

Topic 5. ONL lessons learnt – future practice and reflections on a very different year

Posted on by Nina Albrecht

A year has past since I experienced the few intense, and very interesting, months together with my PBL-group in ONL192. How little did we know as we met for the last time in December 2019, about the future and the how a lot of the things we hade worked on and discussed during the course, …

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Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning

Posted on by Ebba Sundin

Remember the ubiquitous overhead projectors in classrooms, usually with the electric cord across the floor to trip on, during the lectures and writings on the whiteboard? In Media and Communication Studies they were often used for showing images of media content or figures from textbooks. When I moved my office a few years ago, allContinue reading “Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning”