Topic 4 Group 3

This is our presentation of Topic 4; we applied Gilly Salmon’s five-step model to the ONL course, and found that each topic allowed for all sorts of activities – from access, through online socialization, information exchange and knowledge construction, to development. Check out our padlet for more information! Check out our work here

The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity

Topic 4 for  the ONL191 course focuses on how to support and design for learning, with a particular emphasis on accounting for emotional presence (in the context of the Community of Inquiry framework) in learning design. My problem based learning group decided to focus on an Empathy Map learning design exercise that would be used early … Continue reading The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity

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Tuning intuition in online teaching

For our group work this time round, we prepared a mock syllabus for a course on Online Collaborative Writing, peppered with roll-over points describing the thinking behind our choices, using a tool called Thinglink.  This helped to concentrate our thoughts on underlying design issues, which have been laid out clearly by my colleague Sebastian Schwede. […]