ONL201 is ending, hence this blog
post will summarize and reflect upon my experiences, learning and development. “Learning by doing and reflection” is a phrase I usually return to, when thinking about or discussing different aspects of education. This
ONL-course has very much lived up to that phrase, and by that advanced my understanding
and learning of blended education.
The course
has offered several opportunities to know more about and apply different “IT-tools
and -approaches”, such as Google drive, Coogle, blog and webinars. In the beginning
of the course, I thought that apply and test different tools was the man aim.
However, most rewarding have the discussions in the PBL-group (8) been,
listening to and argument for different viewpoints with the team members, and the facilitators. Those discussions have made me rethink and reflect,
and to learn more about different aspects of blended education.
Due to the
corona pandemic, the learning generated in the course could naturally be put into practice.
Realizing the possibilities and advantages of designing online course
activities is one major impact from the course into my own practice. For example,
how to think and structure webinars with many participants. To communicate before (and after) a webinar, by means of a digital padlet, is an interesting way to involve participants.
Another aspects of learning concerning webinars, is that some of the arranged webinars in
the course did not live up to my expectations, even if organizer's aim and intentions
with the webinars were very. I still learned from them, from a student perspective, i.e. how could it be arranged in another way, to make
participants more involved and committed (in the breakout rooms for example)?
The many
opportunities with online education is great, but is not in itself a design mean to
all kind of educational activities. I think many of us are more pro the “traditional
off-line learning” or more pro “new ways of going online”. A guideline here
should be: Always keep the intended learning outcomes in mind and always have the learning in
focus (preferably in according to constructive alignment). From that, we will probably come up with
a wide variety of blended education.
From the
course I have extend my knowledge and apprehension of online education, and sees
almost an endless road ahead of possibilities. Together with the “guideline”, I
will strive in my teacher role to continuously improve and innovate my
educational practice – I.e. doing, reflect, learn and improve.
To summit
up: This ONL-course has been very valuable to me in the continuous journey of
educational development. Moreover, thanks members and facilitators of group 8,
for a pleasant and learning collaboration.
