ONL_andme

  Let's be honest: I am not going to keep up blogging. It's way outside my comfort zone, and while I am sure that this is a good way of venting ideas and sharing with the public for many of my peers out there, it is simply not for me beyond the requirements of the ONL course. So what you are reading is my last blog entry, and I am not at all unhappy about that. However, I have to admit that it was an interesting (and sometimes even fun, and often rewarding) experience to browse other participants' blogs and to engage in exchange with others working on the same tasks somewhere out there.  So this is one thing that I feel I have understood better about myself in the past months on ONL: Moving out of my comfort zone may be uncomfortable, but it sometimes leads to interesting insights, and it is worth it more often than not. Our summarizing "meme" for topic 5 really visualizes nicely that sometimes you need to challenge yourself to get somewhere new. It may seem scary

  Sow how do I feel about the past two weeks? It's easy, and it isn't.  Our journey through the learning design topic was strange. I think we made a honorable attempt at structure. We did all our reading on time, were well-prepared for the first PBL group meeting, sat down to follow the rules - only to end up putting something entirely different together spontaneously on the spot in the second meeting. And from there on things just fell into place in what felt like an exemplary case of spontaneity, good team work and initiative from the wonderful, competent individuals in our group. What happened is that Christian introduced us to yet another great resource from his "toolbox": UCL's immensely useful Learning Designer , an intuitive and easy to use tool for planning anything from individual seminar sessions to entire study programs. Learning Designer allows for visualizing and organizing course designs in a pleasant-looking, well-structured layout, but what's r