Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice

The Open Networked Learning-course, or the ONL, has given me a second possibility to engage in a PBL-teaching format as a student. The first time I engaged in PBL was 25 years ago, in the nursing programme at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between these educational experiences, I wrote a doctoral thesis concerning integrated teaching that I

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

My teaching experience from higher education includes on-site teaching and digital/online teaching.  Both formats offer possibilities and challenges, and perhaps a mix of both formats is the best, in form of blended learning. However, for now, I will elaborate on the shift from on-site to digital/online teaching. Possibilities with digital/online teaching have been exploring a

Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning

I have engaged in collaborative learning where there has been a shared goal for work. Collaborative learning is an autonomous experience of learning that is driven by the individual but in a social context. Collaborative learning strengthens the individual, as the individual contribution in the group is equally valued. Thus, collaborative learning has given me

Topic 2: Open learning – sharing and openness

My own practice is teaching in the nursing programme. This requires of the teacher a high degree of openness and sharing of for instance examples from the profession. The examples enable students with no prior experience of the nursing profession to imagine and understand the context or situation that is referred to. Although recent changes

Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies

I was not born in a digital age, but I grew up in the development of a digital age. This gave me the benefit of a gradual adjustment to a digital incorporation of my everyday life. However, being born out of a digital age has given me the perspective of ‘being before the digital age’

First post

This blog has been set up in relation to my enrollment in a course called Open Networked Learning. I hope the use of blog as interactive tool will lead to an increased awareness and improvement of my skills in pedagogy and social media. Looking forward sharing with you my learning development.