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Reflections on Topic 1

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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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Reflections on Topic 3

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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