a new journey begins #fdol131 #fdol132

new adventures ahead

Hi all,

Today’s webinar was a great celebration of our collective learning during FDOL. Thank you for sharing some of your FDOL131 experiences with us. We will be evaluating the course over the next few months to gain a deeper insight into the participants’ and facilitators’ experience and will be in touch if you participated to help us.

This WordPress space will continue to be available here so feel free to use it. As we will be preparing for FDOL132 to start in the next academic year, you will notice some changes happening here as we are keen to refine our approach. FDOL131 will be kept alive and we would love to hear how it is used by the wider community.

Thank you all for a stimulating learning experience and keep in touch!

Chrissi, Lars and Maria

unit 6: webinar to celebrate learning on the 2nd of May with #fdol131 participants and facilitators

the journey continues

Hi all,

We hope you are all well and have completed the unit 5 PBL task within your groups and provided feedback to another group. If not, please try and do this in the next few days. Thank you.

In unit 6 we are celebrating learning in FDOL131 and we invite you to join our last FDOL131 webinar on the 2nd of May at 7pm UK time/ 8pm Swedish time to share your experiences and learning with us. It would be wonderful if you could use a microphone so that you can use this during the webinar with your peers. You might want to look at the intended learning outcomes for this unit and reflect on your learning. Feel free to add your personal reflections to the community, group space or your portfolio in preparation for the webinar.

The intended learning outcomes of unit 5 are:

• Showcase your learning achievements and share experiences
• Discuss difficulties experienced and how these have been overcome
• Critically explore opportunities for further development linked to flexible, distance and online learning

If you had set yourself additional personal/group learning outcomes in the context of FDOl, it would be wonderful to find out to what extend you achieved these also.

Groups will be invited to share their experience and are very welcome to prepare a mini presentation if they wish to do so to capture the above. The order in which we would like to ask groups to share their learning is

1. PBL group 1
2..PBL group 2
3. PBL group 3
4. PBL group 5/6

The direct link to the Adobe Connect Pro webinar room is https://connect.sunet.se/fdol
If you are new to Adobe Connect Pro, please access http://fdol.wordpress.com/units/webinars/ to test the connection and familiarise yourself with this tool.

We look forward to seeing you on the 2nd of May for this last webinar.

Chrissi, Lars and Maria

Unit 5: next webinar on the 22nd of April with Carol Yeager #fdol131

Bridging worlds?

Hi all,

We hope you are all well and had a good break.

This is a gentle reminder about our unit 5 webinar open practices with Carol Yeager from SUNY, Empire State College, Centre for Distance Learning, which will take place on Monday the 22nd of April at 7pm UK/8pm Swedish time. In order to access the webinar feel free to use the direct link included below.

If you are learning in PBL groups, we hope you are making good progress and will be able to complete your task before we start unit 6. Please remember this webinar is also an opportunity to ask specific questions linked to what you currently explore and discuss with our guest speaker and the FDOL community.

The direct link to the Adobe Connect Pro webinar room is https://connect.sunet.se/fdol

If you are new to Adobe Connect Pro, please access http://fdol.wordpress.com/units/webinars/ to test the connection and familiarise yourself with this tool.

Feel free to share the invite with others who might also be interested in joining us for this webinar.

Best wishes and see you online

Chrissi, Lars and Maria

unit 5: open educational practices @openfdol #fdol131

opening up: what does this mean for learning?

Hi all,

We hope you are all well and have made good progress with your unit 4 tasks. If you have been working in PBL groups, please share your findings in the main FDOL community space at https://plus.google.com/communities/102772793404931941723 and invite peers and facilitators to provide feedback.

Unit 5: open educational practices starts on Monday the 15th of April. If you are in a PBL group, you will in this unit work with your group members on a specific story or scenario linked to this unit’s theme. Feel free to pick one currently available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/15llBOaZCpJ050_lbpYGfnyFYp06tAJ8YekLLobBx99o/edit or decide with your group what you are going to investigate. Remember to use COOL FISh, agree roles and working practices but also intended learning outcomes and how you are going to share your findings with the rest of the FDOL131 community. We suggest to share the link to your findings within the FDOL131 Google + community so that peers from other groups and autonomous learners can provide feedback on your findings and conclusions. Remember also to include the story and your intended learning outcomes.

Our unit 5 webinar has been scheduled on the 22nd of April, which is a Monday at 7pm UK/8pm Swedish time and we have the pleasure to have with us Carol Yeager from SUNY Empire State College, Centre for Distance Learning, who is going to discuss with us open learning opportunities and share her experiences from organising Massive Open Online Courses. This will also be a good opportunity to ask questions related to the story you are investigating in this unit.  

If you are an autonomous learner, feel free to pick a story too and investigate this on your own, or share your thoughts, reading, reflections and activities linked to this unit’s theme with us.

Best wishes and see you all online.

Chrissi and Lars

unit 4: webinar on the 2nd of April with Dr Keith Smyth #fdol131

What do we need to grow?

Hi all,

We hope you are all well and had a good break.

This is a gentle reminder about our unit 4 webinar supporting learners with Dr Keith Smyth which will take place on Tuesday the 2nd of April at 7pm UK time. In order to access the webinar feel free to use the direct link included below.

If you are learning in PBL groups, we hope you are making good progress. Please remember this webinar is also an opportunity to ask specific questions linked to what you currently explore and discuss with our guest speaker and the FDOL community.

The direct link to the webinar room is http://blackboard.salford.ac.uk/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBPBLACK/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=9ee23862-3d79-48d2-9f19-9b6bc5764a66

Feel free to share the invite with others who might also be interested in joining us for this webinar.

Best wishes and see you online

Chrissi and Lars

unit 4: supporting learners starts tomorrow @openfdol #fdol131

Helping others grow? What works?

Hi all,

We hope you are all well and have made good progress with your unit 3 tasks. If you have been working in PBL groups, please share your findings in the main FDOL community space at https://plus.google.com/communities/102772793404931941723 and invite peers to provide feedback.

This week marks the start of unit 4: supporting learners. If you are in a PBL group, you will in this unit work with your group members on a specific story or scenario linked to this unit’s theme. Feel free to pick one currently available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/15llBOaZCpJ050_lbpYGfnyFYp06tAJ8YekLLobBx99o/edit or decide with your group what you are going to investigate. Remember to use COOL FISh, agree roles and working practices but also intended learning outcomes and how you are going to share your findings with the rest of the FDOL131 community. We suggest to share the link to your findings within the FDOL131 Google + community so that peers from other groups and autonomous learners can provide feedback on your findings and conclusions. Remember also to include the story and your intended learning outcomes.

Our unit 4 webinar has been scheduled on the 2nd of April, which is a Tuesday at 7pm UK time and we have the pleasure to have with us Dr Keith Smyth from Edinburgh Napier University who is going to discuss with us supporting learners in the context of online learning. This will also be a good opportunity to ask questions related to the story you are investigating in this unit.  

If you are an autonomous learner, feel free to pick a story too and investigate this on your own, or share your thoughts, reading, reflections and activities linked to this unit’s theme with us.

Best wishes and see you all online.

Chrissi and Lars

unit 3 webinar on the 18th of March with Sue Beckingham @openfdol #fdol131

together we are richer

Hi all,

We hope you are all well.

This is a gentle reminder about our unit 3 webinar collaborative learning and communities with Sue Beckingham which will take place on Monday the 18th of March at 7pm UK time. In order to access the webinar feel free to use the direct link included below.

If you are learning in PBL groups, we hope you are making good progress. Please remember this webinar is also an opportunity to ask specific questions linked to what you currently explore and discuss with our guest speaker and the FDOL community.

The direct link to the webinar room is http://blackboard.salford.ac.uk/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBPBLACK/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=9ee23862-3d79-48d2-9f19-9b6bc5764a66

Feel free to share the invite with others who might also be interested in joining us for this webinar.

Best wishes and see you online

Chrissi and Lars