The ONL-course is now finished. It has been an interesting journey characterised by a constant lack of time coupled with continuous stimulation from creative people, innovative techniques and imaginative ideas. My digital literacy has undoubtedly becom…

Here, far too late, my reflections for topic 4 come. In our group, we discussed much how to retain students on online courses. We all had the experience that the rate of dropouts is much higher in online courses than in campus courses. We discussed wha…

Topic 3 has been the most valuable so far. In my subject, due to large groups and low funding per student, the students do all assignments in groups. Three very pertinent questions were raised in my group. The first concerned how to really engage all s…

Just saw an interesting talk regarding diversity in teams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtPG2lAmm4 the study shows e.g. that with at least 20% women in a team innovation increases. Yet, only 30% of German top companies have at least one wo…

Yesterday I joined a meeting in the Netherlands in which the mentimeter was used in a creative way. They had open questions to which we all wrote answers of varying length. Then some of the answers were discussed and elaborated on. The discussions were…

The issue of how personal to be on the web is a bit intriguing. Should we mix our personal lives into the professional writings? My own research into social media marketing shows that being personal generally leads to higher success. For me, however, …

I participated in the tweetchat yesterday. It was an interesting and quite fun experience. Could perhaps be used for creative discussions in a course. But many students probably don’t have twitter. And can we require that they get it? It’s after a…

I think that the natives-immigrants typology may have taken the metaphor too far. The web consists of such a huge array of diverse phenomena, which makes it too complex for such a dichotomy. For instance, while my children are much better at using Snap…

Finally, I had time to see the webinar with Sara Mörtsell. Very interesting information. Seems like I am something of a resident after all. At least in some circumstances. Very useful also with the information regarding copyright to images.

This week has been extremely hectic finishing in a full-day event with the participation of the county governor and many other dignitaries from Stockholm as well as locally. So, not really any time for ONL, but I hope to have more time next week.

This is the blog that I will use in the ONL-course. I don’t know yet what I’ll write in it but I guess that I will find out soon. Feel free to follow if you want 🙂