Group work is not a “refreching change from just a lecture”, but a powerful form of work when people learn something new. Here are some good reasons to choose group work. And a risk to keep an eye on.
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Group work: How to divide into groups?
What is best? To let the students take care of group division themselves, to let them wish for group colleagues, or as a teacher to single-handedly arbitrarily decide who works with whom?
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Bloom’s taxonomy for writing learning objectives with systematized, active verbs that describe a progression of knowledge, skills and abilities.
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The SOLO taxonomy for writing learning objectives with systematized, active verbs that describe a progression of knowledge, skills and abilities.
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The syllabus is written in the tool ÖKA. Use the available instructions. They offer many examples and suggestions for practical solutions, aspects to consider and examples of good wording.
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It is difficult to discuss details in something, e. g. a course structure, if you do not have an idea of the whole. What is the whole that the details are intended to support? What is the pedagogical idea for the course that the details should realize?
Continue reading “Formulate a pedagogical idea for the course!”Tips: Structure in the course with Canvas ‘Study Planner’
With the canvas tool Study Planner, you can help students create structure in their study work and in their planning. In addition, the tool helps you assess how your course structure will affect the students’ workload. Have you created a reasonable structure?
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Blended learning, flipped classroom, synchronous or asynchronous teaching communication. What do the terms mean?
Continue reading “Are you blended or just flipped? Synchronous or asynchronous?”What images, texts, links am I allowed to use? About copyright
We teachers convey information. We often use other people’s materials, articles, books, texts and pictures. Most of it is copyright protected and you need to know how you are allowed to use different types of material. The so-called Bonusavtalet (Bonus Agreement) allows teachers in teaching activities at universities to copy and share copyrighted material more freely than normal, but where are the boundaries?
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The terms feed up, feed back and feed forward come from a classic article by John Hattie and Helen Timperly. What do they stand for?
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