Jesper Augustsson

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Reflections on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

maj 12, 2020

Hi guys, OK so about this topic I have chosen to reflect on “Are there opportunities for further development in this area that you have identified as a result of your own experience as a learner in the ONL course and of your engagement in this topic?” from the suggested themes by the ONL team. And the answer to that question is a resounding “Yes!”. I was struck with the video by Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes (only one of them worked, just sayin’). She pointed out that the Community of Inquiry-model that consists of social, cognitive and teaching presence may also have a 4 th presence, namely emotion. It was obvious that a lot of people in the ONL course also thought so, almost all the input in the padlet concerned emotional presence. In a slide Cleveland-Innes spoke on desirable traits for a teacher to project, specifically: · Relaxed confidence, conviction · Enthusiasm, excitement, passion, a sense of drama, curiosity, sincerity, concern, honesty ·

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Reflections on Topic 3

maj 11, 2020

OK so for this topic I have chosen to reflect on ‘an occasion when real collaborative learning took place that moved your own thinking forward’, as it is aptly put on the ONL page. Although I have experienced some collaborative learning in the past (but sadly, and remarkably, only a few times) as a teacher, I choose an occasion a couple of weeks back when PBL09 worked on Topic 2 (Open Learning – Sharing and Openness). Rarely have I experienced such an effortless and stunning group work, and where the collaborative learning resulted in a quite nice video presentation. When I try to analyse what went right , so to speak, I go to the literature to try to find factors that were important for our group to be successful collaborative learners. In a study by Scager et al (2016) that focused on factors that increased the effectiveness of collaboration in university courses, it was shown that “factors evoking effective collaboration were student autonomy and self-regulatory behavior,

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Reflections on Topic 2

april 27, 2020

OK, so Open Learning – Sharing and Openness then. Let’s start with what openness means for my own teaching. Up until a year ago, I pretty much ripped off and used just about any material I wanted and could get my hands on in my courses. It could be a YouTube video, a song on Spotify or a figure or model from an internet page. It didn’t really matter because my courses and its content were not public so no laws of copyright were broken, the way I saw it. Then I began my YouTube channel and started to put my lectures on YT as well as in my courses. It was an unintentional and a bit immature way of open publishing you might say. I knew that my YT videos could not contain material that was copyrighted so my approach when it came to producing video lectures started to change. This was because I did not want to make two lectures on more or less the same subject. So therefore, in the process my closed university courses lectures have become cleaner when it comes to the subject of copyri

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Reflections on Topic 1

april 20, 2020

Hi all, So the Friday 13 March David White webseminar was great I think. The hierarchy system (the normal academic system) in which in which students are ranked by an authority (me as teacher) vs the network system in which students collaborate, connect and communicate with each other. While I do feel like it is a bit too radical to swing the pendulum to full connectivism (“It never works” David W emphasized), my course coordinator mind works on different ways to incorporate more of this type of learning in my courses. The quote by DW: “Teachers have historically been the gatekeepers of authentic knowledge, but now have become more of arbiters of connections” (he said something like that anyway), I thought was interesting. In my advanced courses that contain >50 participants, many of them with lots of knowledge on the subject, I can relate to this metaphor ‘arbiter of connections’. It is simply impossible for me as a teacher to trump such a large critical mass of knowledge

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PBL Group 09 Neck Tat - Yes or No?

april 16, 2020

Now that the course is well under way (and the risk of having to switch groups is fairly low) I think it's time for me to honor my fellow group members and facilitators. What do you think?