Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

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...

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...

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

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”