The most important thing that I have learnt from this course is how important is socializing and engagement in a learning environment. I have been lucky to be a member of a fantastic group where I felt we were really collaborating since the end of the first topic. It was amazing when we were completing the last assignment because we were collaborating and giving suggestion to the leader of the topic and at the same time we were having a lot of fun. I think it is important socializing because it is the trigger for engagement and engagement lead to work with high efficiency. This fantastic working and learning experience will of course shape my practice. Since the last two topics I have been looking for practical activities to let the students socialize and how to get more engaged in the learning process. I would say that those are the main two targets for next year courses.

I think technology is part of our daily life and of course it should be a key mean to enhance the learning and teaching process. As I have mentioned during the course, I´m interested in tools and activities to help students socializing such as ice-breaking tools/activities. I am also interested in tools to enhance the collaboration and learning. I was thinking to use Wikipedia next year to allow the students improving their critical thinking by reviewing contents, credibility and references of Wikipedia topics related to my courses. I got several inspirations from my colleagues from this course and other courses on how to self-evaluate my teaching through tools that aim to check the students understanding of the lecture. I got a very interesting suggestion from an ONL colleague on how to better organize the course and be more efficient. Record the lecture, post on-line the lecture one day before the class, let the student watch the lecture and then during the lecture discuss about what they have learnt and go deeper on certain aspects. I will use the online lecture for basic information and the physical lecture for some aspects more related to my research.

This course has been fantastic but I feel that it is just a starting point. I would like to know more about tools and activities for socializing and for engaging students. I would like to have the opportunity to go deeper in certain topics we have dealt with in the course and have the possibility to discuss more with other teachers to get more inspiration and motivations to improve my courses. One of the aspect I have appreciated from ONL is the possibility of interacting with other teachers more experienced than me who were willing to share their strategy on how to deal with certain issues related to teaching. FOr instance, I have got several hints from my colleagues on how to boost socializing among students and how to be more efficient in my lectures and how to improve the engagement. I feel that I need more of these opportunities.