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PhD Defense in corona times

Christo, the local audience and the remote audience.One of my PhD students, Christo Dordlofva was to graduate on March 17, with a grading board from three different universities in Sweden and external examiner (opponent) from Texas. But due to restrict…

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Reflections on topic 1: experiences from ONL and my digital identity

This is the third week from the Open Networked Learning course and my first blog post with learning reflections. So I would like to start addressing my reflections on the ONL and my experiences from it so far. Experiences from ONL As part of the connecting week I was assigned to the PBL Group 9,… Continue reading Reflections on topic 1: experiences from ONL and my digital identity

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Developing Digital Literacies in the Corona Era

Amazing how things went in the elapsed two weeks. What we have witnessed recently is an amazing forcible engagement of the most resistant educators in the e-learning process. On the other hand, students had to complete the cycle too. When persons in charge clearly identify the complexity of learning materials and experience of both teachersContinue reading “Developing Digital Literacies in the Corona Era”

EASTERN CAPE MUST QUARANTINE ITS BORDERS TO AVOID EASTER WEEKEND HORROR.

Eastern Cape is one of the provinces in South Africa that has not detected any COVID 19 virus to its 6.25 million people. According to health Spokesperson in that province, this is not because EC has drastic or strict measures to fight this disease that has already took lives of more that 12 000 people … Continue reading EASTERN CAPE MUST QUARANTINE ITS BORDERS TO AVOID EASTER WEEKEND HORROR.

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Digital participation and digital literacies

Digital participation is now more or less mandatory. Few are the people that remain anonymous online without leaving digital traces. Teaching and learning increasingly take place in digital realms… Canvas… Google docs… Reflective blogs on the learning process. And these are not digital interactions of the web 1.0 variety, where we interact as visitors, findingContinue reading “Digital participation and digital literacies”

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Update – Sweden goes digital!

From tomorrow Linnaeus University goes digital-only for teaching and examination. Probably other universities will make similar decisions since the government recommended that today for both universities and upper secondary schools.Nursery schools and …

Getting Started with Online Teaching: Respecting Digital Differences & Learning from Your Elders

This reflective blog post comes at an interesting time for online teaching. The spread of COVID-19 has not only meant that professors at Harvard have had to replace handshakes with ‘elbow bumps’, but also that many classes simply had to be moved online to avoid contact. This move might however not be as simple asFortsätt läsa “Getting Started with Online Teaching: Respecting Digital Differences & Learning from Your Elders”