Reflections on Open networked Learning

 Reflections on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning      Photo by  Joel Filipe  on  Unsplash Online and Blended learning...Hybrid learning...Flipped learning, Flipped classrooms !!!! These were some of the new terms that I was exposed to at the beginning of April 2020, perhaps the time when we the world started living in the times of the New Normal.  Interesting and challenging as it has been for the past 9 months now, metaphorically speaking, we see the birth of a different take at many things in life including teaching. All actors in this - students and teachers learned to handle the new tools, new technologies, and adjusted to new demands. But somethings remained common such as the educators' challenge regarding engaging students in classrooms and the students' challenge adjusting to new styles of pedagogy.  For this topic, the PBL 13 group took the support of Beck's model of online experience based on 3 components -  the social presence, teaching presence, a

 Reflections on Topic 3 : Networked collaborative learning Photo by  mahdis mousavi   on   Unsplash Collaborative networked learning ----This something that we, educators and learners, are doing these days !! Especially since the Corona pandemic has struck the world learning online and collaborating with each other has become the new, most practiced norm---the new normal.  In this topic, the question we posed was 'How can we integrate collaborative learning in our online courses? '-- a poignant question educators are asking themselves each day. Today, we teachers are all trying to make our courses as attractive as we can by connecting online teaching with learning content but we also try to connect the learners with each other. Further, there are numerous challenges educators face to ensure that they are able to form an educator -learner relationship. Educators don't just want to be facilitators of syllabus-based content.... they want to create a bridge that connects them w