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Lessons Learnt and Future Practice

As a final task on this course, we are to define our key lessons learnt. The course has been different from what I expected, but it has been very interesting, and I have gotten a lot of new ideas and references. Below you find my personal reflections. I hope you find them useful!   1.      IT is a skill/competence that needs to be developed and nourished a.       Students and young people are just like older people with regards to IT skills. Some are really good with IT and some are not, some are natives and some are not. IT and learning new IT solutions quickly, is a skill and a competence, necessary for finding information, when preparing presentations, taking online courses etc. So why don´t we have courses that focuses on how to learn IT skills? We wouldn´t dream of expecting students to know grammar in their native language without ever having had a grammar class. IT is similar to grammar; one has to understand the structure and logic to use it correctly. We can´t escape nei
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Design for Online and Blended Learning

  This fourth topic Design for Online and Blended Learning has been such an interesting topic! I would have liked to spend at least twice as much time on the subject! During my career, there has been a few occasions, where models/ways of working has affected my way of thinking/doing things profoundly for a long time. I found one of these basic principles while studying logistics; when making a change in a process, always start with analyzing what you can stop doing and after that analyze how to change the process. Almost twenty years have passed since I read the book and took the course but evaluating which steps can be eliminated is still a guiding principle for me when I want to make changes or simplify ways of working. I believe that Martin Weller´s method for learning design will have the same type of impact on me. Learning design is “the practice of planning, sequencing and managing learning activities, usually using ICT-based tools to support both design and delivery” (JISC
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Learning in Communities - Networked Collaborative Learning

  The third topic is on Learning in Communities – Networked Collaborative Learning . In our course material, Kay Oddone discusses personal learning networks (PLN), online learning communities and personal online learning networks. According to Kay Oddone, there are quite a few definitions of PLN; but she also says that, in reality, it really is a personal experience. The term PLN started to appear in the late 1990:s, in 1998 Daniel R. Tobin published a web article Building your own personal learning network. Tobin´s definition of a learning network was “a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience”. According to Kay Oddone, the definition is still valid, although how we learn and what we learn through our networks have changed, partly due to new technologies. The power of online PLN:s come from the interaction that occurs. PLN:s are based on social learning
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Open Learning - Sharing and Openness

  The second topic is Open Learning -  Sharing and Openness . And it is a vast topic, covering such different areas as the individual creator´s rights to his/her creations as well as openness and rights to education from a societal perspective - from copyright issues and creative commons to Article 26 of UN Declaration of Human Rights, Democratization of Knowledge stating that Education is a public good and should be made available to all. This blog post will focus on only a few aspects of sharing and openness. What is openness on a personal level? In the webinar lead by Maha Bali, she asks the participants; what is openness to you? – and the answers varied greatly. The discussion also covered if openness is beneficial and valuable – and there is no right or wrong answer. Openness needs to be evaluated in a context, and sometimes it is valuable and sometimes not.   A model for openness Cronin has developed a model with four levels for individual openness ·         macro  (g
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Online participation and digital literacies

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  This is my first blog post in the course Open networked learning focused on teaching at universities in an open networked environment. I am attending the course as an open learner, not affiliated to any university.  There will be five blog topics and this topic is the first one, Online participation and digital literacies . In the course we always have a group task and in addition, write a blog post individually, so sometimes I will be referring to my own reflections and sometimes to discussions in our group as well as literature, which of course can be recordings on Youtube 😊 . Part of the literature studies, was to watch David Whites presentation on visitors and residents. It made me reflect on if students should share their point of view publicly early on in their academic studies or wait. Is it in the best interest of students to share their point of view early on or should they await further into their academic studies? It is a decision students should take actively and not ju
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