ONL journey - the bumpy road of K.S.

                   Unfortunately the experience of ONL172 course has come to the end, but new road opens before us. With new experiences we can plan next moves and begin the next year. Let’s hope we can apply what we have learned in our FOCUS courses. If anyone would be interested how we managed to do this – you can always track https://www.facebook.com/SBFOCUSproject/ or/and SBFOCUS_project on Twitter.   For sure ONL172 is a course worth recommending to anyone who wants to see how the course should be organized, what elements should be covered, what we should think of in general before preparing our courses or upgrading our teachers skills. The course has opened some gates for me indisputably, and hopefully for others too :) I have even raised my hand when our facilitator asked if any of us wants to be a co-facilitator during the next course edition! ONL172 was an intensive, interesting, unique and valuable experience. Even though I guess some of the participants have dropped o

According to a film “Will it blend? – iPad” (and other devices being blended) (1) anything can be blended if we: try very hard, have a good background (knowledge and stuff), have a positive attitude and of course if we make use of appropriate technology (in the case of the film – blender 😊 ). However making a good e-learning course is not that easy. There are some ground rules to be followed and we have to think through all the steps very carefully. ADDIE model (2) divides the e-learning course cycle into 5 stages: analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation. In my opinion, a crucial stage of the course cycle is planning (analysis) – if we don’t analyse everything properly prior to designing the course, our structure will not stick together, and the possibility of total failure seems very much real. Just like the building without solid foundation – it will split into pieces during first earthquake. During planning stage “identification and prioritisation of the teachi