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Topic 5 - What have I learned?

What I've learned and the future This has been an interesting journey. It was comfusing at first becase there aresom amny plantforms and places to be all the time. But is has been giving. I was not used to so much collaboration. Not from campus courses, and especially not from distance courses. But it worked! And was also fun! Thanks to my fellow students in my group, and thanks to our two guides, Gizeh Perez Tenorio and Sofie Wennström, I managed to convert from frustration and lack of time, to doing my part (I hope) and finding my way. This way uf using PBL group learning combined with creative collaborative assignment is a good way of learning I think. So I definitly leared something from this cous, but it was mostly from how the course was designed. So this was relly learning from experience as Murthy, Iyer & Warriem (2015) suggests. Learning design should be in focus for any course, but with more blended courses we have to think about it even more. The design gets

Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning

Why blend? How to make a good blend? Constructive alignment and focus on what the student does (Biggs & Tang, 2007) is a goal for me, and has been for a long time. It is easy, when you feel unsecure, to focus on what you yourself are doing. And that is not unimportant. But the mail focus shoul be on creating oppotunities for the students to work with their knowledge and to practice what is the learning goal. To keep the verbs in mind, for example "to reflect on", you can create opporutinies for the students to continously reflect. That is, for all kinds of learning design. When it comes to blended learning, I like the definition of blended that emphasize the thoughtful process of design. It is not about how much is online versus on campus, but more about the process (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008). Some define it for example by percentages of online or campus, but how do you define how much is done online? You can for example use online resources in the classroom.