When I read that I needed to set up a blogger site as part of the course requirements, I initially thought it would be hard. But, as it turned out, I was able to set up the WordPress site and connect it to a domain in a few minutes. I have enjoyed the scenario for […]
Topic 3 – learning in communities
In this topic we will be investigating the power of learning in communities and networked collaboration. This is what you are already experiencing in your groups and in the ONL221 community itself but we will look at how we can form communities and how they differ from networks. We also invite you to consider your […]
ONL221 Topic 2: Open learning – the journey continues
Now we enter the second week of this topic and we hope you are having interesting discussions in your groups. If you haven’t seen the webinar with Maha Bali from the first week please do so (view recording). This week (Wednesday 6 April 11:00 CEST) you are welcome to join our second webinar with Kiruthika […]
ONL221 Topic 2: Open learning – sharing and openness
We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]
Topic 5: The future of learning
I mentioned earlier the HarvardX course I studied last year, it actually became a part of this course as well. It was the Leaders of Learning, including the Modes of Learning from Prof. Elmore. This course put a nice framework to different kinds of learning, and also looking into the future, actually slighly foreboding the […]
Topic 4: Blended/hybrid learning environments
In this topic we had a great deal of discussions over how to design modules of blended learning, focusing on the students experience. Some teaching is of course best teached face to face, and must remain like this. Discussions among people who dont know or trust each other for instance. But some parts actually work […]
Topic 3: Engaging in Collaborations
As teaching has been conducted online last year, most teachers have been asking themselves: “How do I engage the students?” and “How can I make the collaborate online?” This is a very hard topic, and many teachers have worked hard on this, with divided results on most cases. Our dicussions in the group where of […]
Topic 2: Open learning
The online teaching has one strong possibility in teaching: Openness. For me, when the pandemic hit, already the second week I was inscribed in several online courses, including one very interesting course on leadership in teaching environments from Harvard University. It was actually for HarvardX, the platform for MOOC, Massive Open Online Courses, where thousans […]
Topic 1: Online and Digital Literacies
The pandemic put all our teaching online for a prolonged time. This enormous change of education put a thousands of challenges, and made teachers all over the globe to rethink their ways of teaching. Now, one and a half year later, all teachers have actually done it. We did put teaching in online setting, for […]
Welcome to Topic 5 – lessons learnt and future practice
OK, so twelve weeks later, how are things? If you take a short moment to think, about how you felt at the start of ONL212 around mid-September and how you feel now, about the digital stuff that’s available out there, about your own capability? We hope you have found what you were looking for when […]
Jan on Collaborative Learning
I find this topic particularly interesting – probably the most relevant topic so far in the workshop. In my research, I focused on the differences between expectations and the potential of collaborative learning in online classes. It appears that Collaborative Learning is often seen as something desirable per se, often without questioning whether it is […]
ONL212 Topic 2: Open learning – sharing and openness
We hope you have enjoyed the first topic and you are beginning to work well in your PBL groups. Now it’s time to move on to our second topic and for the coming two weeks you will be investigating open learning and the challenges and benefits of sharing educational resources and even whole courses with […]