Things from this course to use in the nearby future

Reflection over topic 5

I want to say thank You all for this very nice course ONL181. I need to go back in to the material again and the different blogs and all the groups different presentations. There are so much to learn here. There are one parts that have been an eye-opener and it is the socializing part. It is a fundamental thing for engaging and I believe that my PBL-group 11 has taken this on-line learning part to a higher level. To have a group to learn so much from and with has been a very important element in this course. When to design my distance courses I want to include PBL-groups. Although I realize that it is hard to find the time and money for facilitators needed for the groups. 

During this course we have used Zoom and it has worked really well in the group work. So, I feel more secure using Zoom now after this course. It is really good to be a student some time. There is much technology to use and I feel I need to improve more before feeling comfortable using them in my own context. In one of my ongoing courses on campus I have tried the menti.com that we tried during some of the webinars on ONL181. My students have both competed in some quiz’s and they have also made up questions to use in a quiz. They liked it really much. Both I and them found it to be fun and they also did pay more attention to the lectures when they knew they should compete afterwards. 

I have found free open textbooks to use in my area and I will use one of them now in a course for the nurses I teach both for campus and distance. I have also found some really good free lectures in The Khan Academy about for instance kidney physiology that are really useful in an ongoing physiology course that I teach in. Furthermore, I will try for me a new collaboration tool that we have used during this course. So, I have already implemented several things that I have learned during this course. I also need to work more on how to implement the PBL-group work that I myself have found to be so valuable for my own learning. We also found out the importance of facilitators in our PBL-group. We could not have made this work without them so when implementing this kind of group-work in my on-line courses in the future it needs some reflection on how to do it. A facilitator is probably crucial for this to work. And I want it to work. I think that our on-line students also could get a lot out from formal PBL-groups!