Concluding week – ONL future perspectives
By Learning you will teach...by teaching you will learn!
Since most of the participants of ONL151 are academic practitioners, I can say that this course made us realized that by learning we can teach and by teaching we also learn a lot of things. In fact, the course was designed properly that made us experience how to become a student and enhance our teaching skills as well. With the aid of all the digital tools, activities and suggested readings and resources upgrades my own teaching skills.
Well, enrolling in ONL151 is a remarkable experience for me because I was given a chance to work with people whom I do not know personally in the beginning of the course but end up collaborating with them to perform different tasks needed for the course. Working with new acquaintances is a bit difficult but if you will just be cooperative and do your assigned tasks, everything will be alright, not to mention the assistance and support of the facilitators. Honestly, I found it hard to interact in the beginning because I was hesitant to express my ideas and experiences but little by little, I became more comfortable working with other members of my own group.
Thru
this collaboration, I can say that I gained a lot of new knowledge especially the Swedish
culture, new trends in teaching (teaching pedagogy) and different tools that
are very useful in developing and enhancing my teaching resources for online
courses. I will definitely use the different tools that were introduced in this
course like padlet, coggle, google+, prezi, google hangout etc. to enhance my
teaching skills and encourage students to participate in our online learning
lessons. Using Creative Commons is also a good idea that is very useful for
setting what rights the owner allows to a user. Technology indeed is a
powerful tool to enhance learning/teaching because it encourages people to
participate in different activities using different digital tools. For me, it is like
"edutainment", you are learning but at the same time you do not feel
bored because you are entertained with different features these tools are
offering.
I guess the outline of ONL course is almost perfect, I was glad to learn and use the tools being introduced in this course but I guess the most important is the collaboration, on how the group work together to reflect and make presentation. Though most of us were busy with our own obligations, still we were able to manage to produce an output every week.
I can conclude that the ONL course was almost designed perfectly and for the future perspective in E-learning in general I would like to suggest conducting quality assessment in all
important aspects of E-learning implementation from assessing the readiness state
of students, teachers, administration and facilities before the implementation of E-learning to the assessment of the result or impact to the all the participants. Sometimes the participants are not aware about the correct
practice of E-learning, most of the times they are still adapting the
traditional classroom set up of being very dependent to the teacher. They just
simply thought of it like a very flexible environment where all you need to
know is how to use the internet to gain the knowledge they want. In fact,
self-independence is one of the most important attributes of the participants
to learn and maximize the use of course resources. On the other hand, the assessment of the impact of
it's application is also a good practice to determine if the services being offered are in use.
Last but not the least...I wan to congratulate all the organizers of ONL151 course who made this course possible and interactive. Hope to participate in your future online courses...Lycka till!
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