EKeller@ONL181

This is it. It has taken me a while to put the learning experiences together and reflect upon how my journey in this course has been. As I look back at my first blog post, I realise that a small step has been taken. I manage to write a few blog posts! As some of the fellow ONL course participants, I also believe this could be the last blog entry for a while. The picture above shows a swirl, or whirl, which made me think of the expression "I was caught up in a whirl of work", where the word whirl describes a moment of confused movement . This is the reason for my choice of image for this post. It is how I could describe my journey in this course: a whirl. If we think of learning as doing things differently next time we do the same thing, I have learned a number of things, mainly from other course participants. It has been a turbulent few months spent trying to keep all the 'plates whirling around' without falling. I feel I need time to let a number of ideas si...

My favourite topic in the ONL course. Sadly, I had little time to explore it as I would have liked to. But when I see the result of our PLB6 group work, I realise I made a small contribution to the overall result. I would like to start this reflection by looking back at what I learned a few years ago in a course I took, a blended course taught by Martha Cleveland Innes during the time she was affiliated faculty to our Department at KTH. First a definition of what the difference is between online and blended. o    e-learning = technology enhanced o    online = 80% of the content delivered online o    blended = 30 to 79% of the content delivered online o    traditional / web-facilitated = 0 to 29% of the content delivered online Unfortunately I missed the webinar but have just watched the recording. Great to hear Marti’s calm and well explained points. I loved listening to her again talking about the drivers of change in...