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ONL Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Nadine Karlsson

I will share my experience in blended learning in a course I am involved in at the University of Linköping. I have been teacher since 2017 and course coordinator since 2018 in the course of Social Epidemiology in the Master Program in Medical Sciences. To teach to students the relevance of social determinants of health […]

Topic 3 Learning in communities- networked collaboration

Posted on by Alexandra Olofsson

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash During this weeks when we have worked with this topic, our group have had very interesting discussions related to both cooperation and collaboration and with those as a starting point, I want to start by defining these two concepts; Cooperation: The process of working together to the same end.Continue reading “Topic 3 Learning in communities- networked collaboration”

Week 4:Reflection on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning

Posted on by emily

Our current practice on the development of blended learning is uploading of pre-recorded video lectures via online learning platform followed by  two hours of  face to face tutorial every week. However, this method of blended learning has changed since the COVID-19 situation because our students are required to do home-based learning.  We continue to upload pre-recorded lectures via theContinue reading “Week 4:Reflection on Topic 4: Design for Online and Blended Learning”

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Topic 4: What is Blended in Blended Learning when all are Staying Home?

Posted on by ivan kwek

I had always been suspicious of the idea of blended learning. Not because I do not think it a good thing. On the contrary, it seems hard to argue against in the current pedagogical climate. So, what’s my problem with it? Well, it is the unquestioning faith in the affordances of digital and online technologies … Continue reading Topic 4: What is Blended in Blended Learning when all are Staying Home?

Role of Academia in Managing Conflicts of Collaborative Groups

Posted on by Nesrin Khankan

It has been stated that faculty members may be unaware of the effective strategies to manage conflict and some just keep watching without any effective guidance. After navigating the internet about this issue, I have found that there are some unpretentious efforts at some colleges worldwide that offer students courses on learning conflict resolution skillsContinue reading “Role of Academia in Managing Conflicts of Collaborative Groups”

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Welcome in

Posted on by Viktor

I guess everybody has some kind of idea for what “openness” means, when we talk about it in daily life. But I’m pretty sure you will get the same number of explanations as the number of people you ask.  So what does it mean and especially, what does it mean in education? And is thereFortsätt läsa “Welcome in”

Conflicts within Learning Collaborative Groups

Posted on by Nesrin Khankan

Creative educators establish quality learning environments that allow students to engage in collaborative learning activities within their assigned groups. Such environments contribute to better learning outcomes, including development of higher order thinking skills. Students can be heterogeneous in their outlooks to collaborative activities, especially when participants of diverse cultures and attitudes are connected in computer-basedContinue reading “Conflicts within Learning Collaborative Groups”

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Online collaborative learning – exciting times

Posted on by emolsson

The importance of collaboration is empathized and talked much about in today´s university world. I hear it in all sorts of settings, from our own vice chancellor to the Swedish Higher Education Authority. With digitalization, and especially during the Covid 19, collaboration has truly entered the online teaching as well. With Covid 19 I also thinkContinue reading “Online collaborative learning – exciting times”