Digital anxiety

That fear of digital tools can undermine learning made me think about a topic that I encountered in a previous pedagogics course. Quant-phobia or statistical anxiety are terms describing how some students get mentally blocked when they see equations, calculations, or numbers. According to a study of US humanities, 75-80% of the students experience that their … Continue reading “Digital anxiety”

Something New…

Yesterday I did a task where we had to provide information on ourselves as part of a group powerpoint presentation. I generally use powerpoint as a tool in my lectures, this was different however in the sense that I seem to be speaking alot about myself lately and also having to navigate tools in order … Continue reading Something New…

Amazing!!!

Started this blog as a requirement of a web-based course on Problem Based Learning. Barely a week has gone by and already such an amazing start to the course.  As a South African it is exciting to join colleagues from Sweden, Finland, Singapore  and  Zimbabwe who all part of the same group.  We all had to… Continue reading Amazing!!!

Who am I?

Hi Everyone !! Welcome to my blog, I am Zeanette Naidu a law lecturer at Varsity College , Westville situated in sunny South Africa, Durban! I am embracing my new venture with online learning and I am so excited to share this journey with all of you. Navigating my way through online learning is quite … Continue reading Who am I?

Inaugural COER International Research Symposium

Today, I will be attending the inaugural COER International Research Symposium at the Center for open education research at the University of Oldenburg. This is a particularly interesting event for me. Partially, due to my interest in open education. I have been codesigning and codeveloping open courses such as Understanding Customer Experience, Idea management and Servitization, […]

Last week’s keynote by Hülya Basaran

During last week’s pedagogical conference at Karlstad University, I had the pleasure to listen to the keynote by Hülya Basaran. Hülya held a very inspirational speech about her immigrant background, being different, braking norms and following one’s dreams. I’m always glad, when I see a presenter in Sweden having a creative commons license on the […]

Connecting

After checking out the course infrastructure and setting up my blog last week, Open Networked Learning took off for real this week. I attended a ZOOM meeting where the ONL facilitators presented themselves, gave a overview on the course and … Continue reading