EDUCATE 'EM ALL

Image retreived from Pexels under  CC0 licence  by Tookapic „Change is the end result of all true learning” Leo Buscaglia I’ve changed during the ONL course and I really feel I’ve learnt A LOT! Everything is so fresh, so it’s hard to say what was the most important, but let’s try to sum up some reflections… First, I have to say that I started with almost 10 years of experience in teaching, but it was restricted to classroom teaching only, although my digital literacy happened to be not bad (that was encouraging at the beginning of the course, that I wasn’t lost with the tools etc.). Before the ONL I didn’t actually participate in any online course, so the whole experience was very new for me. I’m really happy, that my first online course was so well-designed and great, so my attitude towards online learning is very positive now.  Actually, when thinking of our FOCUS courses that we are going to create next year, I feel sorry that we probably won’t be able to offer so

Image retreived from Pixabay under  CC0   licence The topic 4 from ONL course raised up lively discussion in our PBL13 group. All of us had some slightly different ideas of what blended learning actually is. Similarly, if we look through the literature, we can find many ambiguous definitions. The one that appealed to me the most, was quoted by Driscoll (2002): blended learning is - “To combine various pedagogical approaches…to produce an optimal learning outcome…”. So, the cycle of blended learning does not necessarily incorporate digital tools, however, web-based technology is often inseparably identified with this way of learning. That was the first surprise. I guess the other was, that when we took a look at our teaching methods used so far, it turned out that all of us use different models of blended learning! We just didn’t know that at the time. I don’t need being convinced, that blended learning is beneficial. But for the doubtful ones I gathered two examples fro