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Lessons learnt – future practice

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  It is almost three months since I started my ONL-journey, and I will try to summarize this experience with three statements:         Processing problems in group are effective for the learning – In this course I have realized how effective it is for my learning to process a problem in a group. Every member of the group is a Lego brick in my learning. Our differences in experience, personality and backgrounds gives perspective and insights that has developed my knowledge.         Group work is difficult – I have realized that I need a lot of skills, especially social skills to be able to contribute in the group work. By knowing the skills and have them in my mind during a meeting I can help everyone to contribute to the group work and problem solving.           The need of structure and chaos – This is the most fun, but in the same time the most challenging part of this course. There is a good structure for t...

Design for online and blended learning

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  Even though we did well during the pandemic, switching from campus-based lectures to online lectures there is a lot of challenges in transforming learning activities from a campus course to an online course. Most of lectures were just transcribed from IRL lectures to online lectures. A lot of teachers have been struggling with activities that didn´t work, the feeling of lecturing for a black wall, quite students and problems with examinations. I think that there is a lot more to learn on how to transform traditional education in a classroom to online classrooms and I think this pandemic have given us a lot of data to analyze and a lot of experience that we need to collect and learn from. This topic and the whole ONL course had a direct impact for me. Right now, I´m working on developing one online course and one distance course with blended learning. My teaching experience is long (28 years) and I have a lot of knowledge about digitalization of education, online- and blende...