Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice
For me, the most surprising, most heartening, and most frightening realization I’ve had through my participation in ONL, is online collaboration and learning is not that bad. This is probably a realization that many people have come to during the Corona Virus pandemic. I was getting there and then ONL really put the final nail…
Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning
I teach and electromagnetic theory course during the fall every year. The course is best described as “intermediate” and is compulsory for my department’s masters degree program. The class consists of applications of mathematics to specific problems in electrical engineering. The best teaching of this subject I have experienced is where an engaging personality writes…
Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
Some reflection for topic 3. I find all three suggestions interesting and relevant to my own experience so I will respond to all three: An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward One occasion that really struck me happened during my postdoc in the context of a research manuscript.…
Reflection week
I’ve thought a lot about my earlier blog posts and I think I’ve made some progress in class understanding. In my second and third posts I said something to the effect of “I have no idea what’s going on.” Now I think I come to an understanding about the topic around the time the topic…
Openness in teaching as it relates to my subject material
In my field, for both teaching and research, there is significant computer code in the form of high-level scripting languages. Popular choices include, but are definitely not limited to, MATLAB, Python, and R. Even very specific, advanced software has a scripting option which allows you to explore a complex space through basically, a text box…
My own digital literacy recommendations
Now that we’ve finally finished our digital literacy unit, I finally have some real thoughts on digital literacy that came from watching how we worked as a group. Below are my digital literacy tips: Come up with a straightforward file naming convention for your documents that clearly communicates some sort of version number Purchase cloud…
Further thoughts about this class and my challenges participating
I am totally out of my element in this class. Whereas my electrical engineering degrees are usually an asset when it comes to digital literacy, I find they are a significant weakness when it comes to discussing digital literacy. I also, apparently, use the internet exclusively in visitor mode so it seems I don’t have…
First week
I am interested to know how this PBL work will go. I just received an email list of individuals in my group. After some light internet/google stalking I find the individuals represent the following list of fields: Physiotherapy, textiles, didactics, linguistics, Sociology, Education. No engineering or physical sciences participant. Also, arguably no mathematics participants although…
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Zach Taylor ONL 202 