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OPEN NETWORKED LEARNING Teachers at different universities learning together about open networked learning in an open online course An important part of strategies for educational development in Higher Education institutions is to prepare for future needs of innovative virtual learning environments. Thus there is a need to provide opportunity to learn about technology enhanced learning as part of teachers’ continuous professional development. Open Networked Learning (ONL), an open online course, was developed to accom-
modate this while simultaneously opening up educational practices toward other interested parties. In its current from, the course has been offered twice both as an open course and as in-house training for teachers, course designers, educational developers and learning technologists at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Lund University and Linnaeus University, Sweden.
Design for facilitation and support The course is structured around seven topics relating to aspects of online learning and teaching. Learners from the participating institutions work in mixed groups of five to eight members including one or two open learners, using a specially developed method for collaborative inquiry in online environments, called FISh (Focus, Investigate, Share). Each group has a facilitator to guide the work, which is carried out online, both asynchronously e.g. through forum discus
sion and synchronously through the use of video conferencing tools. For the institutional participants, the course is offered as a continuation course in higher education pedagogy equivalent to two weeks of full-time work, i.e. 80 hours. For certification, certain requirements have to be met. These include: active participation in group work, writing reflective posts in a learning (b)log and giving feedback to a learning partner’s blog posts.
Collaborative inquiry in online environments
FOCUS INVESTIGATE SHARE (FISH)
Asynchronous discussion
Synchronous meetings
Creation of presentations
Assessment through
ACTIVE GROUP PARTICIPATION Connecting & Networking
Collaborative Learning & Communities
Digital Literacy
Flexible & Mobile Learning
Blogging
Peer feedback
Assessment through Open Educational Resources
Designing Learning Environments
WRITING LEARNING REFLECTIONS
Concluding week
Participants voices I had several thoughts verified, like that preparation is very important and that feedback is essential.
What is the most important thing you learned on this course?
That digital tools are not a substitute, instead they strenghten and and continue the development of teaching
The differences (challenges & opportunities) with networked learning compared to IRL learning
How will ONL change your teaching?
It will revive my teaching! Opportunity for me to put in more emphasis and strengthen what is important to me.
Develop further ideas of fusing physical and and digital learning environments
That PBL is a very good technique for keeping participants in an online learning course active
I feel more confident to use other tools
It will promote international teaching projects, but bandwidth is a problem in many parts of the world
Lars Uhlin1, Maria Kvarnström1, Ebba Ossiannilsson2, Lotta Åbjörnsson2, Alastair Creelman3 and Maria Hedberg2 1Unit for Medical Education (UME), Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, 2Centre for Educational Development, Lund University and 3Linnaeus University Library, Sweden
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