Dear reader,
I’m Heikki Paakkonen and I work at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Finland.
A course, a community, an approach
Dear reader,
I’m Heikki Paakkonen and I work at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Finland.
My name is Carys and I am writing this series of blog posts as part of a pedagogical course I am taking called Open Networked Learning. I am a 41-year old British Swede living in Malmö. I have been studying and working at Lund University since I arrived in Sweden 10 years ago. First asContinue reading “Introducing myself”
PBL vs CDIOI have been working with CDIO implementation (Wikberg Nilsson et al 2017) in the Industrial Design Engineering programme that I am responsible for at Luleå University of Technology, and even that it feels like I am quite familiar with PBL I …
Telemarking in a lot of snow.Now I am officially admitted to the course and now preparing for the first start-up meeting in Luleå (Feb 25:th), getting a Twitter account (@PeterTorlind). Also updating this Blog and added a previous experience page, so y…
Topic 4 has come to an end. For me, a few words from the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework stays in my head; teaching presence not teacher presence. It if funny to think how only a few letters can make such a big difference in terms of meaning of a word! The theory of Inquiry suggests three key elements that …
Continue reading “Topic 4 Teaching presence not teacher presence”
Before wecan start to think about course design for online environments, I feel that it is vital to have a definition of what we want to achieve: What is a successful learning situation? How can success be defined in connection to learning? In defining this for myself, David Wiley’s TED talk from the 6th of … Continue reading “What is success in learning?”
Before wecan start to think about course design for online environments, I feel that it is vital to have a definition of what we want to achieve: What is a successful learning situation? How can success be defined in connection to learning? In defining this for myself, David Wiley’s TED talk from the 6th of … Continue reading “What is success in learning?”
I have decided to join an open networked learning course (https://www.opennetworkedlearning.se) and this is the Blog that will be used to present my learning experience in this area.
Last topic of the course. Time to say goodbye. After several weeks of learning, exchanges, growth… a mixture of feelings comes over me. On the one hand, I am happy for the job done and also a little relieved that I no longer have to devote so many hours a week to the course. However,Continuar lendo “Final blog post”
Hello! We are reaching the final stretch of the course and, despite so many weeks in contact with new knowledge, I feel that with each topic I have much more to learn. As I mentioned in the initial posts, this course uses an active teaching methodology in PBL (problem based learning) format. This means thatContinuar lendo “Design for online and blended learning”
At the moment I only teach campus courses but I have experience with online courses as well, but that was some years ago, when technology wasn’t as good as it is now, and also I think that I lacked knowledge of the opportunities given by technology. During this topic I have read up on theFortsätt läsa “Topic 4 – Design for online and blended learning”
I think the main merit of participating in the course actually has been to take part in a structured online course entity, and through that becoming familiar with tools that can be useful when having to structure and run online and blended learning courses in the future. As this will be expected from us byContinue reading “Topic 5”