1. What are the most important things you have learned through your engagement in the ONL course? Why?
I have learned that I probably needed a kick in the butt. I have inherited my online courses from retired teachers and just copied and pasted them every new semester. I won’t do that next year. When September 2026 comes, I will add some new interaction to the courses.
2. How will your learning influence your practice?
I will do some changes in online courses where I am teaching. I will include some more tools for asynchronous collaboration on shared spaces like Miro and make it possible for participants to interact in a “richer” way. I will also try to have some online meetings that are synchronized.
I will also try to accommodate for participants labelled as “lurkers”. I will try to arrange possibilities for them to come and go and grab the knowledge they want and with respect to how they want to learn.
3. What are your thoughts about using technology to enhance learning/teaching in your own context?
I am very positive to enhance learning by using technology. Although technology must justify its use by doing something. For me, who often are in learning contexts where disabled people are participants, that something could be to add extra accessibility or usability. Technology used in the right way can act as an equalitarian force. More people can participate and by using technology more things can be done in a variety of ways. I also think that AI used in the right way can change how we learn and what is important to learn.
4. What are you going to do as a result of your involvement in ONL? Why?
In other words, this question is the same as question 2. So, take a look at question 2.
5. What suggestions do you have (activities and/or in general) for the development of eLearning in your own teaching or context?
I have come to think a lot of why we organise learning that needs to end at a specific date. I know the whole system of credits etc. depends on learning activities starting and stopping at specific dates. In formal settings that might be necessary but in many settings learning can go on without specific dates when you are supposed to be done with all tasks.
I also think that there should be a more ongoing experimenting with new eLearning approaches. And perhaps also that we get rid of some old rather bad online tools and use newer and better ones.
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