I know myself as more of a visitor to the digital world than a resident. I have been always cautious of what I share online, to whom, and for what purposes. I have also been worried about how the information… Continue Reading →

A course, a community, an approach
I know myself as more of a visitor to the digital world than a resident. I have been always cautious of what I share online, to whom, and for what purposes. I have also been worried about how the information… Continue Reading →
When I reflect on my communities and the impact of them in my professional development and learning in general, I realize that I do not follow a lot of people (I am not really active) on social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. However, by doing so I never thought I was lacking […]
The picture of a despot -someone telling his/her followers how to do things , understand the world and follow is…
I have worked as a teacher for over 20 years and I have as long worked on getting students collaborating. During the first 17 years it was collaboration in class but since 2020 it has been much more online focused. Online has not been a major learning platform for my university before the pandemic and […]
Large classes are typically taught in a lecture format where learning material is dissipated, and students submit their final assignments from self-developed understanding. To create a shared understanding of the learning material wherein students actively interact, infer and co-create knowledge, a student-centric method grounded in social constructivist theory called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) […]
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In one of my project courses, I apply randomly assembled groups or assemble groups based on the result from a questionnaire (Teamology, by Wilde, 2008). I do this mainly because it is an applied course, where teams work with an open problem formulation, and where group processes are part of the curriculum. I also believeFortsätt läsa “”Collaboration””
My personal learning network suddenly and unexpectedly became exclusively digital due to the pandemic and this must be a fairly common experience. This got me wondering – how has my personal learning network been affected by a year of covid restrictions? For me, this switch to the digital hasn’t posed a problem in terms of […]
The topic for this theme has been about learning in communities, networking and collaboration. It has been rewarding to reflect on the often complex and subtle processes underlying these issues. I think that we often in general take the networks we are engaged in for granted and probably are not aware of how the affect … Continue reading Topic 3: Learning in communities
This was my turn to co-lead and I found collaboration/learning in communities to be a really interesting topic, both in the content and how collaboration actually played out. In the ONL context there were at least two aspects of collaboration for me: working together with my co-leader and working together in the group. I alsoContinue reading “Topic 3 – Learning in Communities”
In some ways, especially technology-wise, this is a golden age for collaborative learning. Top tier universities such as MIT and Stanford offer course materials for free, internet access is prevalent worldwide (although stability and speed still vary a great deal between countries), and free collaborative tools online such as Padlet, Wakelet, Google Docs and othersContinue reading “To Work with Others, Know Thyself”
How to design an online course is such a way that it leads to the meaningful learning process for students? …
On experiencing collaborative learning It was during field trip in Nepal, my first stint as a co-mentor (co-facilitator) of a multidisciplinary international PBL student case at Aalto University, that I […]