Tommi Kakko – All the blog posts from the #onl181 community

ONL18: Reflections

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Tommi Kakko

As with all of these courses, the best part about it was meeting colleagues and having interesting conversations with them. Because of the way the course was organized, virtually all sessions were or involved conversations with colleagues. We do discuss courses a lot at work as well, but these conversations are often more practical than theoretical … Continue reading ONL18: Reflections →

Salmon’s Model for Online Learning: Designing a Blended Course

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Tommi Kakko

I spent most of Topic 4 suffering from a flu and lacked the energy to study the materials when they were first posted. However, I do have to create an online blended course for the spring semester and thought I would look at what my group came up with and how their thoughts on the … Continue reading Salmon’s Model for Online Learning: Designing a Blended Course →

Online Group Work: Forming Groups, Creating Focus and Maintaining Interest

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Tommi Kakko

During the past two weeks, our group has thought about group work. This has of course made us more aware of our own group work practices. I think we were already pretty good at it, but it never hurts to get in a bit more practice. We started out with a few articles from which … Continue reading Online Group Work: Forming Groups, Creating Focus and Maintaining Interest →

Free Content and Creative Commons

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Tommi Kakko

After a few weeks of our online course and thinking about open learning, it has become clear that nobody is advocating for completely free platforms and content anymore. We now know that free platforms always come with some kind of cost. As a rule, if a platform (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) is free, the user … Continue reading Free Content and Creative Commons →

Hello world!

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Tommi Kakko

This is my blog about going through an online learning course. It will be updated as soon as the course starts in earnest.