Reflections on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning Photo by Joel Filipe on UnsplashOnline and Blended learning…Hybrid learning…Flipped learning, Flipped classrooms !!!! These were some of the new t…
A course, a community, an approach
Reflections on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning Photo by Joel Filipe on UnsplashOnline and Blended learning…Hybrid learning…Flipped learning, Flipped classrooms !!!! These were some of the new t…
This autumn, 2020, meant new challenges in teaching at my (and others’) universities. Restrictions in connection with the ongoing pandemic meant that all, possible, teaching was transferred to be given entirely at a distance and digitally. For me, this meant that the master’s program that I have most of my teaching in, went from being …
Topic 4 was about “Design for online and blended learning” and the scenario was very much relevant for the current situation with a pandemic going on, where everyone has more or less been “forced” to move their teaching online. With limited time to do so and no previous planning for this, it has many timesFortsätt läsa “Teaching is not about a “one-man” show”
The third topic centered around how to create learning communities and foster collaboration. We spent quite some time discussing what precisely a community is, and how this differs from say a network. Briefly, one could say that in the former, you “coo…
Topic 3 was about Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. We all have been there- taking part of a group work where communication halted. With social loafers that just want to hitchhike along not putting any effort into the work, or with a dominant person taking charge and decides pretty much everything themselves. Or, perhapsFortsätt läsa “Building trust”
Gilly Salmon’s Five stage model offers an opportunity for teachers to reflect on how they (as teachers) need to support students in their development to be able to assimilate digital teaching and develop their ability to collaborate in the best possible way. The model is presented as a staircase with the steps: Access and motivationOnline …
Fortsätt läsa “Scaffolding, student’s journey & is this for everyone?”
This year has been challenging in the educational sphere due to the urgent need to transfer nearly all our teaching to a scattered mesh of online formats and platforms. It has pushed many of us outside our comfort zones and towards a perpetual spiral of pedagogical compromise, but it has also triggered our inner ‘survivalContinue reading “Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning”
Learning extends beyond the boundaries of a typical classroom as we have witnessed currently in the fight against the COVID pandemic worldwide. The traditional mode of learning is also inadequate in meeting the increasing demands of acquiring knowledge and skills in a rapid changing economy. With this context, let us explore how educators can ride …
Learning extends beyond the boundaries of a typical classroom as we have witnessed currently in the fight against the COVID pandemic worldwide. The traditional mode of learning is also inadequate in meeting the increasing demands of acquiring knowledge and skills in a rapid changing economy. With this context, let us explore how educators can ride …
A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design
After having one semester of virtual class, I see that students’ engagement/ commitment is one of the main issue I am having. It was not easy to engage them virtually and I felt that often I ended up answering to my own questions. However, I am glad that I am attending this ONL course becauseContinue reading “Virtual Class and it’s problems”
Throughout the past four topics, I have journeyed from personal digital identity to online community in the context of education. As I was journeying from one topic to another, a few questions came to mind and now I have a chance to formulate them. I particularly put a lot of thoughts on these questions: Does […]