Month: <span>December 2022</span>

Some Online learning frameworks! 

As a part of the course Digital Learning Design in Higher Education we have reflected on some significant Online learning frameworks:  Laurillard’s Conversational Framework, Salmon’s five stage model for online learning, The Community of Inquiry model by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer and HyFlex by Beatty.  By using the digital tool …

Reflection upon Module 3 and 4_ Online learning theories

All reading materials and videos given here in module 4 allowed me to reflect on how distance teaching and learning in higher education should be considered in a way that all participants in an educational environment have a meaningful experience. When I consider one of the online learning frameworks presented …

Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and learner presence

Professor (Emeritus) Terry Anderson introduced the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework and the relevance of learners´ interaction in the webinar Social Presence and Interaction in E-learning arranged by Eden Digital Learning Europe (2021). In this context Anderson reflects upon the question “Why community?” and underlines that “there is lots of …

Some words about Bloom´s Taxonomy  

Bloom´s Taxonomy arrange learning objectives in a certain hierarchic way (see Arievitch, 2020). I believe it is important to emphasize that this is just one way to think about learning objectives. In Bloom´s Taxonomy, the ability to memorize is the first level and after that comes other learning objectives in …

Some words about knowledge-building  

In our course book knowledge-building is explained as a concept that brings together under one umbrella the curiosity-driven inquiry of the young child and the disciplined inquiry and invention of the mature knowledge worker (Scardamlia 2003, see McConnell 2006 s. 20). A short explanation of knowledge-building is that it is …