“A personal learning network (PLN) is a group of colleagues, mentors, and professionals that you connect with to enhance your learning and take charge of your own professional development” Elizabeth Trach, Schoology Exchange The quote above resonated with me as it speaks to the autonomy you have in creating your learning networks. They are personal and drivenContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

I found this week’s task fun because we used a podcast to inform others about collaborative learning. Prior to covid, I purely lectured face to face using some case studies to assist learning. My practice has changed significantly where I lecture online and had to adopt gameification, quizzes, online chats, forums and activities to engageContinue reading “Topic 3: Collaborative Learning”

One may take the concept of Openness for granted. For me openness means access to information, resources that are available. There might be a argument between capitalism (profit) VS sharing information with others. In my country, South Africa, I see a a huge rich poor divide because many students do not have access to purchasingContinue reading “Topic 2 : Openness and sharing”