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Reflections on Topics 3 and 4

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Heikki Paakkonen

Dear readers and participants of ONL201 course The last few weeks working with course topics 3 and 4 have been rather intensive. No time has been left for adequate reflection. The course is coming towards its end and I believe the despite of the every now and then appearing tiredness and frustration I have learned … Continue reading Reflections on Topics 3 and 4

Reflection on topic 4: design for online and blended learning

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Victoria Marín

We are approaching the end of the Open Networked Learning course. This time we have addressed topic 4, being the focus on technology-enhanced learning design, which is one of my top practice and research interests within my academic trajectory in educational technology. On the other hand, of course, the topic comes now really timely, since… Continue reading Reflection on topic 4: design for online and blended learning

Let’s create a colourful environment for our students

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Nesrin Khankan

There has been a discussion lately with colleagues about the actions or measures that keep students on track or drive them to withdraw from their courses. I have been analysing a recent case of one of my students who dropped out of my course just five weeks after the commencement of the semester. I teachContinue reading “Let’s create a colourful environment for our students”

Emotion and learning. Also cats.

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Daniel de Augustinis

In Touching Feeling, Eve Sedgwick (2003) drew on a material approach to performativity and included an affective dimension. For those unfamiliar with performativity theory, here’s a summary: when we use language, we do not mirror the truth, but we constitute it, challenge it or reproduce it in a complex tango of repetition and difference, likeContinue reading “Emotion and learning. Also cats.”

Emotional reflections

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Lars Lindhagen

För att kunna lära måste du känna / Annars blir din kunskap grå och platt Lisa Ekdahl, På jakt efter solen, 1994 (To learn, you must feel / Otherwise your knowledge will be grey and flat.) Topic 4 is about designing courses for online and blended learning, a large and complex topic, worthy of finalisingContinue reading “Emotional reflections”

Creating the container of collaborative learning

Posted on May 6, 2020 by davidderichs

Collaboration in online learning can open extensive possibilities in knowledge creation, surpassing individual learners’ efforts. Achieving collaboration, however, can be a challenge. Chiriac and Granström (2012), Hämäläinen and Vähäsantanen (2011). Janssen

Topic 4: Blended learning

Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

Many educators nowadays implement blended learning designs in their courses. The development of technology has brought the possibility to use different digital platforms and tools for education that can aid teaching and learning and facilitate their pr…

Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Pietro Elia Campana

Looking at this ONL experience, in particular the group activities, I agree with the results of the study conducted by Capdeferro and Romero [1] on how to avoid frustration in on-line learning environments that is equivalent on how to promote collaboration (since one of the main reasons of frustration is the lack of collaboration). IContinue reading “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

Topic 3: Connectivism and online collaborative learning

Posted on May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

How learners can learn collaboratively while taking an online course if they are not in a classroom filled with classmates and they are physically isolated interacting only through their computer? At first, it may seem like an oxymoron but would it mak…

Topic 2: Openness as Public Good .. but also Privilege

Posted on May 5, 2020 by ivan kwek

Openness is in fashion. Openness is also big business. Surely openness is a good idea, isn’t it? Think of the many ways I had benefited from the generosity of colleagues, and strangers even, who were so willing to share. Let me count the ways. Each and every “original thought” I thought I had probably arose … Continue reading Topic 2: Openness as Public Good .. but also Privilege

Facilitator Support in an Online Course

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by aijin

It is interesting the role that a facilitator has in an online course. I often wonder to what extent the facilitator should engage in the facilitation…do you guide the knowledge construction to the point that you are steering the learners, or d…

Deep learning online? A question of making it tight

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Lucia C

Deep learning, this is what in many discussions with my colleagues we have wished for. That our students would focus more and learn in a deeper way. And we have complained about how superficial they are, especially the generation we now meet in the first year of our programs. In our ONL201 discussions we alsoContinue reading “Deep learning online? A question of making it tight”