New blog
Starting up my blog for the ONL181 course with this initial post. This will be an interesting experience.
Improving practice
Online and blended learning can obviously take many different forms, and my own experience is rather rudimentary. It totals two courses, one pure online course and the other a blended course combining online with offline teaching. The online aspects of these courses were, for purely non-academic reasons, kept extremely simple. For instance, the pure online course offered participants no direct student-teacher interaction of any kind and student collaboration was encouraged but largely left to the students. The blended course had plenty of face-to-face interaction during classroom sessions, but little in the way of online activities of a similar kind. There is in other words substantial room for improvement. Taking the cue from Solomon’s Five-stage model (Solomon 2013), both courses could start with a mandatory introduction to the online environment and to online teaching. This would give students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the technological aspects of online lea...
It seems like we are many who feel the same ‘Am I going to start blogging?’
ReplyDeleteI, for example, wondered how some managed to have a nice picture instead of our own in their blog entry in the course.
Good Sunday!
Well done to setting up your blog already, Tomas! Looking forward to your posts during the coming weeks!
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