Wow… I just got out of the last webinar on the #ONL251 course and I must admit that it has been a challenging and rewarding experience. Rewarding because of the open culture and the non-fear culture of the facilitators that made me much more open to that learning processes are messy and imperfect and that is the whole point. Even if this has been my conviction all the time this course really confirmed that. The challenge for us as university teachers and maybe in a Swedish context where universities are state agencies and there fore come with very rigid routines and systems that does not always allow us to be as messy and imperfect as we would like to be. We have large classes and small wallets so we have to be very creative to be able to work with open, situated learning for all.

The most most important things I have learnt is that we need to take more time to introduce different digital tools, platforms but also to tell the story about the course and the pathway though the course that we cant our students to take. I also think the residents and visitor model was very useful in thinking about that everyone is somewhere on that spectrum when it come to digital literacy.

My learning will influence the way I introduce courses both on an offline in that I have gotten so much knowledge about how we can use technology and digital online tool such as #Canva, “Mentimeter, #MS Whiteboard, #Miro, #Paddlet etc. The wonderful thing with the collaborative learning model that is used in the course it that it makes participants go from being scared of trying to becoming brave and curious about these tools that can be used men scaffolding out student and colleagues in learning processes.

Many thanks to the course coordinator Jörg Pareigis and our PBL group facilitator Gregor Theilmeier. Thanks also to PBL05 Grace, Luca, Eunice, and Felicia for great collaborative learning and so much fun and understanding.

//Lisa #ONL251