Online learning - networked & collaborative learning

As a continuation of my previous blog and reflection on the lecture of Alec Couros, there are different ways to collaborate. The way of how we collaborate depends on our personality. Wenger reports several concepts of communities of practice [1]. However, these concepts were discussed only once, and the description is so complicated that you start to think “how heavy the collaborative learning can be when you implement the author concept”. The singing students from Alec’s seminar evoke completely different thoughts about collaborative learning. Based on Siemens notes [2], the learner interactions can be viewed as four stage process: Communication Collaboration Cooperation Community Alex firstly communicated with the course participants about how they are going to participate. They collaborated through the singing a song. Collaboration means working alongside someone to achieve the final goal. Cooperation means making partners more able to do something. It is difficul

My reflection comes from thinking how we should be prepared for each meeting in our PBL group. During the last two topics, we had a lot of discussions, but I could not write any reflection with the pedagogic context. We discussed and socialized in our group, but I don’t know which piece of the new information I could give my students during the next lectures. Being curious about “Learning in communities”, I decided to take a look into the references list, and found a lot of interesting articles which I am excited to read and reflect. The article which I know from other pedagogic courses is “Communities of Practice” from Wenger. This article is of interest because Wenger recalled the engagement as a social context that involves a dual process of meaning making [1]. Our social engagement includes both direct activities, conversation, reflections and also conceptual artifacts such as words, tools, concepts, methods, stories, documents [2]. Our personal participation in social life and our