How to appreciate group work?

Posted on by Petra Mullerova

Within the framework of the topic connected with collaborative learning, our group decided to investigate how students perceive this topic and how we, as teachers, perceive it through research. More than 90% of students spoke positively about working in groups. This high number surprised me, but I compared it with other studies that reported similar […]

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INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIONS FOR Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

Posted on by Sahar Tahvili

Learning in communities can be considered a process of learning that takes place within a community or social group, which be informal or formal. In fact, learning in communities involves shared experiences, ideas, and perspectives.     Learning in communities can occur through online discussion forums, social media platforms, or even in physical communities e.g. […]

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Topic 5: the graduation

Posted on by Ian Chan

Honoured guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, my fellow colleagues… Credit: hotpot.ai image generator. As we come to the end of our 3 months of learning together, I just wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to 2 groups of people. First, thank you to the organisers of this ONL journey. It has been […]

A simple Sandwich approach to collaborative learning

Posted on by Ana Maria Vargas Falla

I was recently coordinating the final module of the thesis course at the bachelor’s in criminology at Lund University (RÄSA 02). Students need to write the thesis in groups of two, but many were against group work. The work was hybrid with  They explained that group work often took more time than individual work, contradicting […]

Topic 4: Designing online and blended learning

Posted on by Ian Chan

The webinars and group discussions around this topic got me thinking about how I would like to create effective online/blended learning.  One of my group members introduced me to a new word: mechanisms (thanks Ziad!). As I understand it, mechanisms are the big-picture strategies which we use to achieve our goal. For some reason, as […]

Reflection 4: Digital Tools

Posted on by Isagani Triste

Hello Everyone! For this topic, we explored and discussed the digital tools that we are using in our classes. The focus of our group is to identify the digital tools that we can use in our classes and how to integrate them into our synchronous and asynchronous activities. In our discussion, each one of us […]

Reflection 3: Collaboration

Posted on by Isagani Triste

Hello everyone! Topic 3 is about collaboration and we were tasked to lead the group in developing our output. First, I and my partner already identified the things that we need to focus on to develop our output, and then we told our group mates to streamline the focus by choosing from the options we […]