With this
final reflection ends my fast and furious learning experience in ONL192 😊. I am absolutely thrilled by this extremely
intense time with fantastic new insides, great collaboration experience and countless
opportunities to reflect on the blended learning scenario we have established
for our part-time students at my university. An extremely intensive, but great
and rewarding time!
I think problem-based learning and
my collaboration experience in the PBL group are two of the most important things that I
have learnt through ONL and which will definitely have impact on my work as a
program manager.
Looking back to my first blogpost I was really keen on learning about problem-based learning (PBL). Going
through ONL I found, that this approach could be a good opportunity to enrich
the modules in our professional part-time programs, which right now focus mainly
on project-based learning. During a 3-4 months period students have to complete
a work-related group-project by developing and presenting solutions and
strategies for a specific problem. PBL gives a chance to open up this
strong/common focus on the project and offers students to focus on their own
learning interest/experience, e.g. working on different themes within a common
topic and share as well as discuss the findings.
In addition to that, I really enjoyed to learn about the facilitator
role during our PBL group work and I am sure, this experience will influence
further thinking about the actual “lecturer/expert-mentor-model” we use right
now.
Worth mentioning for influencing my
professional practice is definitely the
great collaborating experience with my PBL group 10. How interesting and exciting to take the time getting started to
really discuss and collaborate on specific topics. After having done many group works
mainly by co-operating, this real collaboration experience was new to me and
would may be new to some of our part-time students as well. Along with this
collaborating experience I realized that amongst others the following three points help to build and maintain collaborative work:
- participation through social and emotional presence and
- meaningful group or individual activities, which require to
- constantly submit work/results (producing artifacts– e.g. like words, concepts, stories, documents,…)
Furthermore,
it was extremely educational being forced to use new tools and really work with
them. Although knowing some of the tools, I never used them in practice.
Finally: Thanks
to my PBL group 10 and our great facilitators Diane and Sinako. Our facilitators
did a great job by smoothly handing over the responsibility for our group and
individual learning processes. Thanks so much to both facilitators and my PBL
group 10 for this fantastic, deep learning experience!
