Category: Misc.
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Open educational resources and self-regulated learning
Imagine a law student at a university. This student has to attend many lectures and seminars in the fields of civil law, criminal law and public law, acquire competences and prove these in various types of examinations. You can probably also imagine that the student perceives the learning opportunities as having varying degrees of success.…
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Enrichment of knowledge and opportunity to try out a course before committing to it – part 2
At Linnaeus University, open training for web programmers has been conducted for about 10 years, which anyone interested can take part in online. Everything is open from the schedule, study guides, laboratory instructions, reading instructions, practice tasks, examination tasks and all recorded lectures. It gives anyone the opportunity to follow the teaching, but if you…
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Enrichment of knowledge and opportunity to try out a course before committing to it – part 1
Is there any added value in trying out a course before taking it? That question has been asked many times by students and yes the ability to try out a course before officially registering for it with the intention of completing it for credit has its advantages. There is much to suggest that there is…
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Facilitate access to learning in distance education. Experiences in collaborating with students to create an open e-textbook
The idea of creating an open access textbook as a collaborative project, co-authored by students, emerged during the period of distance learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic and War. One of the courses I teach at the Educational and Research Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is ‘Managing Multi-Platform Media Projects’,…