Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

The Open Networked Learning-course, or the ONL, has given me a second possibility to engage in a PBL-teaching format as a student. The first time I engaged in PBL was 25 years ago, in the nursing programme at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between these educational experiences, I wrote a doctoral thesis concerning integrated teaching that IFortsätt läsa “Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

Creating a Learning Community: A Double-Edged Sword?

A great deal of my academic work examines how individuals behave in collective settings (e.g., teams, working groups, projects etc.). My research is rooted in organizational behavior literature, where the terms cooperation and collaboration are used in an interchangeable manner. In fact, I also have not paid much attention to the differences between these twoContinue reading “Creating a Learning Community: A Double-Edged Sword?”

[Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

Firstly, I must admit that it was so unexpected to hear the webinar about Community of Inquiry (CoI) as a framework for designing flexible, networked and community-based learning, under ‘Blended learning’. I thought I would hear more directly relevant issues regarding blended learning. But very soon, I realised that it IS important to understand the…Read more [Topic4] Blended learning: Changes in my role as faculty

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Connecting studying to personal values can enhance engagement in learning

The introduction text for the he topic 4 (’Design for online and blended learning’) stated that ”Enhancing community building and promoting student engagement and ownership in learning becomes essential for blended and online learning.” Consequently, I started to ponder what are factors and practices that support students’ engagement and ownership in learning.  I teach about behavior … Continue reading “Connecting studying to personal values can enhance engagement in learning”

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Building trust

Topic 3 was about Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. We all have been there- taking part of a group work where communication halted. With social loafers that just want to hitchhike along not putting any effort into the work, or with a dominant person taking charge and decides pretty much everything themselves. Or, perhapsFortsätt läsa “Building trust”

Scaffolding, student’s journey & is this for everyone?

Gilly Salmon’s Five stage model offers an opportunity for teachers to reflect on how they (as teachers) need to support students in their development to be able to assimilate digital teaching and develop their ability to collaborate in the best possible way. The model is presented as a staircase with the steps: Access and motivationOnline …

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Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning

This year has been challenging in the educational sphere due to the urgent need to transfer nearly all our teaching to a scattered mesh of online formats and platforms. It has pushed many of us outside our comfort zones and towards a perpetual spiral of pedagogical compromise, but it has also triggered our inner ‘survivalContinue reading “Designing and developing practices for online and blended learning”