Online and blended learning can obviously take many different forms, and my own experience is rather rudimentary. It totals two courses, one pure online course and the other a blended course combining online with offline teaching. The online aspects o…

In their article Brindley, Walti and Blaschke (2009) argue that although assessment has been said to be an important factor contributing to collaborative online learning their analysis did not show indicate that assessment made a difference with regar…

When it comes to teaching, the question of openness versus “closedness” may seem like a moot point. Being a teacher per definition involves a certain degree of openness as one is sharing one’s identity, personality, knowledge and experience with other…

Private bloggingLevels of privacySo you have decided to start blogging? You’ve got your first post ready to go, but for some reason you have feel slightly uneasy about hitting the publish button? Thinking about ways to make blogging less anxiety ridde…

Starting up my blog for the ONL181 course with this initial post. This will be an interesting experience.