In the past two weeks we dived into the subject of design for online and blended learning. As I mentioned … More
A course, a community, an approach
In the past two weeks we dived into the subject of design for online and blended learning. As I mentioned … More
In this blog post, I have chosen to reflect on an occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved my own thinking forward. In the beginning of 2000 I studied a full-time bachelor programme. It was a campus programme, but because of the subject matter (ICT and learning) many of the courses had elements … Continue reading Blended bachelor: A collaborative learning experience stretched in time
The road to success is always under construction
The topic for last two weeks is design for online and blending learning. As a teacher who has never taught online course, this topic is quite challenging for me, since I don’t have any experience of online teaching, either any idea of the difficulties teachers might encounter. however, on the other hand, I also learnedContinue reading “Design for online and blending learning”
Topic 4 has come and gone, and it is time to reflect on the past two weeks of the ONL course. My focus will be on the Community of Inquiry model as discussed by Vaughan, Cleveland-Innes and Garrison (2013) in the book, Teaching in blended learning environments: creating and sustaining communities of inquiry. Emotional IntelligenceContinue reading “Emotional Intelligence vs Emotional Presence”
Dear reader, The topic this week, Design for online and blended learning, relates to a current development project that I am involved in at my institution. This autumn, I have been streamlining and updating a blended course on Academic Writing together with a colleague, as part of a wider collection and network of online learningContinue reading “Practice meets theory & presence develops from presence”
During the past two weeks we have divid deeper into online learning and how to plan it. Until now have talked about more abstract level what is online learning and collaborative learning but in this topic we had to get more concrete in the terms of what does it all mean. In the beginning ofContinue reading “The art of designing online learning”
OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, at how you felt at the start of ONL192 around mid-September, 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 […]
“Any teacher who thinks they can be replaced by Youtube, SHOULD be replaced by Youtube”. This is a statement I heard someone say at a conference years ago (can’t remember which conference or who said it), but I think it has a point to it. To me this phrase implies that designing for blended and […]
From the 4th to 17th of November we were working through Topic 3 focusing on networked collaborative learning. These were … More
During the two weeks dedicated to open learning, our group discussed the subject from various angles. We spoke about the … More
The weeks have gone by fast and we are now almost done with the course — so time is up … More