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Collaborate or Cooperate, whichever is best for language learning?

Posted on by Marwa Amri

When reading the scenario for this topic, the first thing that came to my mind was the extent to which I am trasnparent in explaining to my students the difference between these two working formats. First things first, the two verbs “to collaborate” and “to cooperate” are often used interchangeably to mean people working jointly […]

Do we need face-to-face education in theoretical subjects?

Posted on by Johan Högman

Blended learning is all about optimizing learning environments and creating the best conditions for learners in their educational processes. And because we are humans, we cannot do without face-to-face teaching. Even though the idea blended learning existed long before the covid-19, the pandemic has forced many teachers to teach in new ways and thus reflect […]

BP4 – Design for online and blended learning

Posted on by Augusto Cannone Falchetto

First of all, this is a very personal perspective and a particular experience. Second, I feel that this blog is somewhat the second part of my previous blog – BP3 -Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning. Third, let me give context to my post by starting from the course I have just completed teaching […]

Openness in Learning and Education

Posted on by Emina Obarcanin

My own practice of teaching and education students remains very closed due to the closed and strict university procedures and guidelines. This topic led me to reflect: Is it good to be an open educator and make your lectures available for everybody? Or is it better to be secretive and hide and keep your lectures […]

Course design – to blend or not to blend?

Posted on by Susanne Quintes

Again, group sessions for this topic included a lot of discussions about terminology. What is blended learning? What is online teaching? Does blending always mean having online and offline courses?However, everybody immediately knew whats’s meant by emergency remote teaching, the term says it all. The sudden switch to online teaching and learning was especially hard […]