Problem Based Learning Group Experience Posted on May 24, 2021 by Finlay MacGregor It was my turn to be a co-leader for this topic and so I want to take a moment to reflect on the experience of being in a problem-based learning group. In short, what I loved about the PBL group experience was: Sense of community within group The single most important activity for building a […]
Designing for a meaningful (5-day) online learning experience Posted on May 14, 2021 by Joanna Kedra Currently, I am planning an online 5-days intensive course for the summer school. This is not an emergency, ad hoc … Continue reading →
Design for online and blended learning Posted on May 11, 2021 by Avinash Dhital While reflecting on new teaching learning methods, in this post COVID-19 era, the focus and conversations mostly circles around online teaching and learning environments. An important factor to consider here, […]
Topic 4 – Blended Learning Posted on May 11, 2021 by Laura Cox Much like Topic 2, this one seems extra relevant in the current educational context. Over the last year, all of us have had to adapt to new ways of communicating, especially migrating online for meetings, lectures, and seminars. Problems that we haven’t had to think too much about before, such as connect issues, managing breakContinue reading “Topic 4 – Blended Learning”
The Future is Blended Posted on May 9, 2021 by KHO Su Yian While I like blended learning because the learning environment and tools can be expanded to accommodate different types of learners with different schedules, paces of learning and communication preferences, I personally do not enjoy hybrid classes. Having students simultaneously in the classroom and online in my experience is a sub-optimal situation, as the teacher isContinue reading “The Future is Blended”
ONL211-TOPIC 4 Posted on May 8, 2021 by Michail Galanakis blended and online teaching and learning and design frameworks Hi! In our PBL#6 group work I looked into the asynchronous activities in blended learning. My very brief and rather superficial review of the literature suggested by ONL211 yielded the text you may browse below, titled “Elaboration”. The text is a review and light reflexion of […]
Do we need to think differently? (ONL202 Topic 4) Posted on December 28, 2020 by Mohit Gupta The topic 4 in ONL202 was about designing your course and teaching for online and blended learning environments. Moving away from the classical campus-based teaching towards online and blended learning forms has been challenging for most of us, especially during the year 2020 where everyone was forced to do this overnight. At our university, IContinue reading “Do we need to think differently? (ONL202 Topic 4)”
Community of Inquiry and Online Learning Posted on December 15, 2020 by Adesuwa Omorede Community of inquiry (Col) helps in designing and delivering online learning groups of individuals are involved in a process of empirical or conceptual inquiry into problematic situations. Col highlights three presences – the social presence, cognitive presence and teaching presence – which has been used a lot in the online learning context where theContinue reading “Community of Inquiry and Online Learning”
Design for online and blended learning – a challenge and a chance Posted on December 11, 2020 by Kathrin Zeller The forth topic in the ONL202 course, “Design for online and blended learning” has probably been the most comprehensive topic in the whole course and it kind of connects all other topics. It has been a challenge, mainly because I could not dedicate as much time as I had wished for reading and thinking duringContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning – a challenge and a chance”
Teaching is not about a “one-man” show Posted on November 30, 2020 by Therese Bengtsson Topic 4 was about “Design for online and blended learning” and the scenario was very much relevant for the current situation with a pandemic going on, where everyone has more or less been “forced” to move their teaching online. With limited time to do so and no previous planning for this, it has many timesFortsätt läsa “Teaching is not about a “one-man” show”
Learning by Design Posted on November 30, 2020 by Ting Hui A traditional university course is not simply a matter of uploading content online and hoping that the same learning outcomes to be achieved, although the majority of lecturers had little choice but to proceed in this manner in 2020. Pandemic-era teaching has probably been the best demonstration of how much more thought is necessary to… Continue reading Learning by Design →
Differences between learning communities and communities of inquiry Posted on November 29, 2020 by Raul Ferrer Conill Topic 4 kicked my OCD and I didn’t seem to let go. In our PBL we discussed quite a lot about what is the main difference between learning communities and communities of inquiry. It...
