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\"\"<\/a>The fourth topic in the ONL 181 course was about design for online and blended learning. This is something that I think all teachers should thinking about.
\nWhen I’m in a physical classroom together with a group of students, we can hear and see each other.
\nBut in online and blended learning, often written communication has been the basis for educational design. For online learning, asynchronously written communication has dominated.
\nWriting is an important part of communication and the school tradition of written communication is so deeply rooted that I sometimes get the feeling that it is <\/span>more associated with learning than other forms of communicating, making us \u201dblind\u201d for the importance of body language, sighs, tone of voice and other communication modes. \u2028A research study on asynchronous and synchronous communication with students and teachers (Hrastinski, et al, 2010) shows that communication becomes more extensive if the education is designed for both asynchronous and synchronous communication. What is particularly emphasized is that synchronous communication enables students in online workgroups to get to know each other, build social relationships with, for example, small talk. This in turn may mean that more experience is exchanged, more collaboration is obtained and the students feel more committed to making agreed commitments.
\nAnother aspect highlighted is that synchronous communication reduces delay in, for example, feedback and negotiation of when, who and how tasks are to be done.
\nIn the ONL course, we have regularly used video conferencing in our PBL groups. Several of the participants in my group pointed out how important it was for the group’s creativity, collaboration and learning that we got to know each other by means of real-time meeting even though we were in different parts of the world.
\nAs I see, there are three design levels for activities and communication in online and blended learning:<\/p>\n