{"id":326,"date":"2017-03-19T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwantoknowitall.wordpress.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-03-19T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:12:04","slug":"diversity-a-curse-or-a-blessing-for-online-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2017\/03\/19\/diversity-a-curse-or-a-blessing-for-online-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity: a curse or a blessing for online collaboration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did this <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/zhx4vergqmy9\/?utm_campaign=share&amp;utm_medium=copy\">Prezi <\/a>for <a href=\"https:\/\/liu.se\/didacticum\/liu-s-pedagogikdagar-14-15-mars-2017?l=sv\">LiU pedagogical<\/a> days. I wanted to share my experiences from the <a href=\"https:\/\/opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com\/archive\/onl162-autumn-2016\/course-team-onl162\/\">Open Networked Learning course<\/a>, that I took last year. I believed that this course or a similar one could be an alternative for Link\u00f6ping University where the teachers are more and more interested in developing their digital skills.<\/p>\n<p>Specially at the Medical Faculty with the imminent <a href=\"https:\/\/old.liu.se\/didacticum\/liu-s-pedagogikdagar-14-15-mars-2017\/1.713672\/Decentraliseringavlkarutbildningenv2.pdf\">decentralization<\/a> and inter-professionalization of the medical program.<\/p>\n<p>I did it also thinking about the PBL5 group that I am co-facilitating right now at the <a href=\"https:\/\/opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com\/about-onl\/course-team-onl171\/\">ONL171<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"709\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/19\/diversity-a-curse-or-a-blessing-for-online-collaboration\/ska%cc%88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-46-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=820\" data-orig-size=\"2880,1800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ska\u0308rmklipp 2017-03-17 12.19.46\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=820?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=820?w=820\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=820\" alt=\"Ska\u0308rmklipp 2017-03-17 12.19.46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=820 820w, https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=1640 1640w, https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/iwantoknowitall.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/03\/skacc88rmklipp-2017-03-17-12-19-461.png?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though this is the experience from our PBL group 9, I think you can find it useful if you want to know more about:<\/p>\n<p>-Group diversity. Is it a curse?<\/p>\n<p>-Online facilitation<\/p>\n<p>-What makes a group journey successful?<\/p>\n<p>Behind this work are: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xwebinar.nl\/\">Francisca Frenks <\/a>(video), <a href=\"https:\/\/opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com\/about-onl\/course-team-onl171\/\">Sonja Sharp<\/a> (Slides) Miriam, \u00c5sa, <a href=\"https:\/\/opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com\/about-onl\/course-team-onl171\/\">Mohammed<\/a> and Natalia. \u00a0We even intend to present our work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eden-online.org\/registration-open-for-the-eden-2017-annual-conference\/\">EDEN 2017<\/a> conference and guess what? The EDEN is focusing this year on diversity!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, to answer the question in the title: yes, diversity was a blessing for us. Thanks to the scaffolding presence of the facilitators, a positive group atmosphere and our drive to learn from each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">Featured image was taken from Pixabay under CC0 licence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did this Prezi for LiU pedagogical days. I wanted to share my experiences from the Open Networked Learning course, that I took last year. I believed that this course or a similar one could be an alternative for Link&ouml;ping University where the teachers are more and more interested in developing their digital skills. Specially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,97,98,44,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-edtech","category-facilitation-online","category-onl","category-open-networked-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}