This is my first post during the “connecting week” of the course just to introduce my new weblog page for the ONL2020 course.
A course, a community, an approach
This is my first post during the “connecting week” of the course just to introduce my new weblog page for the ONL2020 course.
Well, what can I say…I am always excited to learn something new even though I am not sure what I am getting myself into ?The following weeks you can follow my journey through the open network learning course 2020. My expectations are high and I think I am going to learn a lot but IContinue reading “Getting started”
I research and teach about disasters – with a focus on lessons learning to support mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Most of my courses are distance, with a PBL approach to some extent, and with a few meetings for seminars on campus. I look forward to learn more about PBL and e-learning and together with […]
Kingsley Cheu Sebake started his career in 2017 as a high school teacher. After this he joined Varsity College in 2019 as an Educational Technologist. Teaching for him is a calling. He followed his calling and obtained his B Ed degree in 2016. He was subsequently chosen to participate on a study abroad education intensiveContinue reading “Kingsley Introduction”
We’ve kicked off our problem-based learning (PBL) group, or at least the first batch of us, and we are an interesting bunch of people across the globe and across disciplines, from zoology to engineering, health economics and IT… It will be fun to learn from one another! We didn’t “define” a shared problem but online […]
This fall I am joining a pedagogical course on International and Collaborative Environment at the University of Helsinki (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ya2internationalcollaborative/). The goal of the course is to give us a better understanding of the challenges of internationalization, and diversity in our institutions and our classrooms. We are gonna discuss diverse topics related to this theme through … Continue reading Internationalization of the curriculum
Jobbar på för fullt och nu börjar bollarna bli ett par stycken i luften. Ser verkligen fram emot kursstart för våra programstudenter i vecka 41. Förra veckan producerades presentationer i mängd till den milda grad att jag såg tänder till och med i de sista skördade grödorna :). Jobba, jobba, paus.., pauser är viktiga och …
I´m not used to work by a PBL perspective or at least it is for the first time I do it conciously. If you look at the layout and the idea, I want to say that in some way I already solved tasks acoording to the PBL method without having classified the work to be …
At least, to me, participation to ONL202 is a new way to reflect my teaching and learning. Perhaps it is collective, and able to get instant feedback from colleagues all over the world. To be honest, I cannot articulate tangible objectives of joining ONL202, but it is rather abstract and vague at the moment. My…Read more ONL202: A new way to reflect teaching and learning
I love my bakelite telephone (yes it works), I know how to untangle a cassette tape (although I have not used that skill for a long time) and I prefer to take notes by hand on blank papers. I don’t use Swish (the Swedish app for money transfer), and for many years my mobile phonesContinue reading “Teleportation of a professional digital introvert”