Lessons learnt – future practice

I took part in the Open Network Learning for the first time. And I would say I was really surprised in a nice way. Actually if I would know that this course would be so intensive – I wouldn’t take part in it. Unfortunately I joined this course only on second topic. And it was very hard to understand everything and get to know. I was thinking even to give up. I am very thankful to our Lithuanian team, who really helped me and explained everything, and pushed me to continue. Therefore I could continue till the end. At the beginning I was like a passive attendee, while later on switched to more active. I liked seminars of our PBL13 group, where we could discuss. I even bought video camera for the computer and new headphones that I could not only listen but could talk and discuss with other colleagues too. In previous blog I wrote that I really liked the way how topics were presented, I liked webinars and our small meetings. It is good to have practice. But it happened that those who are better or are more active took initiatives to do most of the work. Just for thinking – maybe it would be good to do an exercise for individual person – to prepare one lesson on chosen topic? But it takes time to watch all those topics… During all course I was thinking how to prepare my lesson, what tools to take, what technique to use, how to present? And I still think very seriously about it. I miss this concrete knowledge. It is nice, that we in a rather short time need to start to prepare whole course on biotechnology. It will be the best practice to use our recent knowledge. And big challenge too.
Another challenge will be to explain and motivate teachers to look to the possibility to prepare courses online. I believe that the world universities (education) future is online education. I am not sure about laboratory works – it would be nice to make such lessons online, while you can learn theoretically such things, for eg. what to put first in to the beaker – water or acid, or how many milliliters add material, but to handle by your one the pipet or prepare the preparation in proper way without practice – it is not so easy… We will see in near future how it will works.

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  1. Alastair Creelman2017 m. gruodžio 23 d. 03:00

    Let's see how you can apply this to the FOCUS courses we will be developing next year!

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