Online collaborative learning across borders in the Open Networked - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Online collaborative learning across borders in the Open Networked Learning course

Lars Uhlin (Karolinska institutet and Linköping university)

Maria Kvarnström (Karolinska institutet) Lotta Åbjörnsson (Lunds university) Alastair Creelman (Linnéaus university)

ICED2018 June 6 2018

Presentation outline

• The Open Networked Learning course (ONL) – brief background
• ONL collaboration and organisation
• ONL design, topics and learning environment
• The ONL team
• Participants voices
• The Contextual Knowledge Practices Questionnaire

What is the course Open Networked Learning (ONL)?

• Collaboration between educational developers at different universities

nationally and internationally

• An open online course (cMOOC) in English
• pedagogy course offered for teachers at collaborating institutions
• pen course for teachers, educational developers, IT pedagogues, course

developers in higher education

• Builds on open and collaborative learning and explores how the problem-based

learning (PBL) can be utilized in a digital environment

• Offers an arena to learn about and experience key issues regarding digital

learning and competence with colleagues from different contexts and disciplines

• Building a community of ”learning by doing” for Open Networked Learning

ONL181 community

Karolinska Institutet Lund University Linnaeus University

Luleå University of Technology Independent Institute of Education

Open Learners

Stockholm University

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Arcada

university of applied sciences

8

Linköping University

8 8

Aalto University Karlstad University

8 8

Mälardalen University

8

Connecting Open learning, sharing & openness Design for online & blended learning Lessons learnt - future practice Learning in communities - networked collaborative learning

1 week 2 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks 1 week

Online participation & digital literacies

ONL181 outline and topics

Getting started

1 week

Learning spaces

ONL homepage ONL Community

(Google+)

PBL groups Individual blog

E-meeting room Google+ Google Drive

ONL overview (11) weeks)

Connecting

Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Topic 4

Reflection Future Campus meetings

ONL start

Intro webinar Webinar Tweet chat Webinar Tweet chat Webinar Tweet chat Final webinar

PBL groups Learning blogs

Webinar Tweet chat Intro Support

Example structure for studies during a 2 week topic

• Topic intro
• Scenario

PBL group

• nline meeting

PBL group

• nline meeting

PBL group

• nline meeting

PBL group

• nline meeting

Peer comments/feedback Sharing a presentation in ONLcommunity Individual reflection in Learning blog Individual studies/work PBL group discussion forum PBL group collaborative documents Webinar Tweet chat Activity tracker

The ONL team - roles

facilitators

• responsible for a PBL group
• “teacher” for learners at a

participating institution

• rganisers

institutional ”teachers”

contacts, one from each institution

co-facilitators

• previous participants
• supports a PBL group
• no formal responsibility

Course team ONL172

https://opennetworkedlearning.wordpress.com/about-onl/course-team-onl172/

“For me personally there were many first in this course. First time blogging, first time tweeting but also the collaborative work” “ONL was a very valuable experience. It proposes an approach to learning practice which is still not widely used” “I feel enriched because I've been exposed to such rich and big topics, but also impoverished because I've only dipped my toes into these topics - I feel that there's so much more in these topics that I'm only just getting to know better, and now the course has ended, boo!” “We were pushed beyond our comfort zones to embrace virtual reality and learn to exist within it. It has inspired me to take learning, for my students into the blended learning space”

Learnt from ONL

“The course has definitely open new avenues for my teaching, learning and research activities” “Through all the frustration I felt, I learned a lot. And I learned a lot about myself as a learner” “I tried to implement what I learned in the course and immediately received positive feedback from students”

“The most impressive experience during the course was seeing the awesome results achieved using collaboration, results that extended far beyond anything I could have imagined” “It is a challenge, but manageable and clearly an opportunity to change education as such” “New technologies has made it so easy to feel you meet each

• ther face to face”

“I have learned a lot about how and why to collaborate "online" that the sum of what we achieved was greater than what we could have done individually. ” “Collaborative learning was a particularly significant topic because it enabled us to reflect upon our interactions with one another, as well as whether or not we were making a significant contribution to the learning of the entire group”

Collaboration

“Being brave enough to do it!” “The benefits of engaging as co-constructors and collaborators of shared knowledge, using digital platforms has been eye -opening. I can see the benefit of it in a law classroom”

”Participants from different races, ethnicities, genders, professions could collaborate as a team on one platform and learn from and with each other” ”Lovely to experience how we came from different backgrounds – but in many instances we were from the same culture of learning” “We came from different worlds, backgrounds, etc., yet

• ur synergy was amazing. I would love to do research on

how to emulate something like that and why that took place, because we were so different” ”The diversity of views was brilliant!” ”Very interesting to see different perspectives, both internationally and from teachers working on different levels” “To solve a problem can be done in many ways and by having "my way" reflected in other people's views enhance my capabilities to actually add to a solution far more thought through than if I only sat down with my "safe" network” ”I was always surprised by the many different perspectives that could be used to discuss a topic, mainly due to having diverse backgrounds”

Diversity

“This course was a great opportunity to explore and experience what openness in education and collaborative learning means”

Openness

“The course opened my eyes to seeing openness in a different light than before, and it showed in a very concrete manner the benefits of being open and sharing in a wide range of ways” “Openness and sharing was a big 'aha' moment for me. I am now comfortable with OERS to such an extent that I am using g them frequently since completing the course and suggesting that my students do the same”

“Lack of time, due to parallel full time teaching”

Challenges

“Uneven levels of commitment in the group” “Difficult to schedule and attend meetings” “Navigating the technological aspects of the course” “Time limitations due to every day life (ie job-related) other responsibilities” “Absence of group members, physical or in contributions” “Different time zones, communication issues”

• is based on the learning approach “trialogical learning”

(Paavola et.al., 2011)

• developed to address aspects of generic competences related to

collaboration, knowledge creation and use of digital technology

• aims to evaluate self-assessed competence-development during courses

that use group work or collaborative knowledge creation assignments

• 29 items for self-assessed learning of competences

“During the course I have learned…”

“to develop ideas further together with others” “to present my expertise to representatives of another field” etc

The Contextual Knowledge Practices Questionnaire (CKP)

Scales for analyzing the results

1. Learning to collaborate on shared objects 2. Integrating individual and collaborative working 3. Iterative development through feedback 4. Persistent development of knowledge-objects 5. Understanding various disciplines and practices 6. Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication 7. Learning to exploit technology

1 2 3 4 5

• 1. Learning to

collaborate on shared

• bjects
• 2. Integrating efforts in

collaborative working

• 3. Development

through feedback

• 4. Persistent

development of knowledge-objects

• 5. Understanding

various disciplines and practices

• 6. Interdisciplinary

collaboration and communication

• 7. Learning to exploit

technology

ONL (2016-2017)

ONL (2016-2017)

1 2 3 4 5

• 1. Learning to

collaborate on shared

• bjects
• 2. Integrating efforts in

collaborative working

• 3. Development

through feedback

• 4. Persistent

development of knowledge-objects

• 5. Understanding

various disciplines and practices

• 6. Interdisciplinary

collaboration and communication

• 7. Learning to exploit

technology ONL (2016-2017) Degree project I+II Interprofessional learning

1 2 3 4 5

• 1. Learning to

collaborate on shared

• bjects
• 2. Integrating efforts in

collaborative working

• 3. Development

through feedback

• 4. Persistent

development of knowledge-objects

• 5. Understanding

various disciplines and practices

• 6. Interdisciplinary

collaboration and communication

• 7. Learning to exploit

technology ONL (2016-2017) Degree project I+II Trauma surgery Design and assessment Interprofessional learning

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Open Networked Learning (ONL181)

17 September - 2 December 2018

Welcome to join!!

Contact: Lars Uhlin lars.uhlin@ki.se