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Have we reached stage 4?

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Sophie Ellermann

We are approaching the end of this course and the last “real” topic addressed designs for online & blended learning. In my PBL group, the sentence “I think everything could be taught online” has been said a number of times, which I think is amazing. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that everything shouldContinue reading “Have we reached stage 4?”

Reflection on my learning and development during ONL 201

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Matti Karlsson

Dear ONL 201 organizers and facilitators, and the PBL team 11, I want to express my gratitude to you for a great learning experience! My goals to participate the ONL course were to experience a collaborative online course from the student’s perspective and get new ideas to improve my own teaching. These goals have been … Continue reading Reflection on my learning and development during ONL 201

Reflection on course design

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Matti Karlsson

Dear blog and readers, Two years ago, I discovered that orienteering might be fun. One of the members of our badminton club is active orienteer and mapper. He organized for us a spring happening, which was about orienteering from his summer cottage to another cottage at another lake about 10 kilometers away. The destination and … Continue reading Reflection on course design

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Jess

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Through my studies in this fourth topic of the ONL course, I have been able to give a lot of thought as to how I can best facilitate learning in both an online and blended learning environments for my students. The concept of scaffolding is an important one, as … Continue reading Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Welcome to Topic 5 – concluding week: Lessons learnt – future practice

Posted on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020 by Lotta ÅbjörnssonLeave a Comment

OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL201 around late-February and how you feel now, about the digital stuff that’s available out there, about your own capability? We hope you have found what you were looking for when […]

Opportunities of Blended learning

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Adithya Thaduri

On the previous topic of online collaborative learning approach, it becomes apparent that to improve the broader perspective and learning of a problem, it is necessary to have both digital tools and competence from various disciplines. However, in order to support these prerequisites, it is necessary to have a platform that consists of leaning theoriesContinue reading “Opportunities of Blended learning”

Is collaboration always possible?

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Silke Welter

How do my students manage that? They work, most of them full-time, have families and study a master-programme – all at the same time. I always had the biggest respect for them, but now, being in a kind of the same position – but only for some weeks and without grades – I don´t knowContinue reading “Is collaboration always possible?”

Design for online learning

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Clarissa Sielemann

This week was all about online and blended learning.In my facility we are normally using a blended learning design.Starting with some text-input and an online questionnaire and than a first in-person meeting. In the first meeting the participants get some more information for the topic and they organize themselves into groups for the exam. The … Continue reading Design for online learning

Collaborative learning for the society?

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Jukka Välimäki

The three main functions of universities are often described to be education, research and serving society. These functions are intertwined, but here I’m focusing especially on the third one – serving the society – in relation to collaborative learning in education. Teaching students to be academics and professionals in their fields can of course beContinue reading “Collaborative learning for the society?”

Topic 5: End of a journey

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by iouant

The ONL course is almost over. What a journey!I learned many things through my engagement in this course. First of all, I experienced how it is to learn through sharing experiences, concepts and ideas and through building your own experiences togethe…

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

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.”