Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Topic 4 and the cult of online blended learning

Posted on May 25, 2020 by camtos

Something that I struggle with, in the context of online learning, is the enthusiasm of people. It seems to me that both teachers and learners tend to be very peppy about the topics of online learning, bleanded learning, flipped classrooms: it is difficult for me to detect the difference between a useful new concept and… Continue reading Topic 4 and the cult of online blended learning

4. Socializing during online learning with a great camera game

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Junhe Lian

With the current situation, I assume that everyone working at universities or institutions have been in an online teaching-learning environment. Have you met the difficulties in engaging the students at these online or blended learning conditions? Have you encountered situations that on ZOOM teaching, the only people turning the camera on are yourself and theContinue reading “4. Socializing during online learning with a great camera game”

Design for online and blended learning

Posted on May 17, 2020 by ulrilind

This course, Open Network Learning (ONL), was a strategical choice for me to apply for this spring, as I’m together …

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Topic 4: Learning, together, about myself

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Jukka Välimäki

Who are you really, and what do you think? These are the main questions here, although I’m writing about the Community of Inquiry, social presence and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a concept of a group of individuals inquiring some phenomenon. In blended or online learning, the CoI model includes threeContinue reading “Topic 4: Learning, together, about myself”

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 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

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”

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

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.”

Topic 4: Blended learning

Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 by iouant

Many educators nowadays implement blended learning designs in their courses. The development of technology has brought the possibility to use different digital platforms and tools for education that can aid teaching and learning and facilitate their pr…