Reflecting on my ONL Journey - Thoughts on the Content, Process and Community
In the span of just over two and a half months - the duration of the ONL course - I have experienced a number of profound pedagogical epiphanies. It has been a while since I felt a quantum leap in my knowledge and understanding of pedagogical practices. In reflecting on the reason for this, I have settled on 3 causes that came together to create these moments of re-invigoration of energy for teaching and reflecting on my teaching. First, the content of the course. Second, the process - more, specifically the combination of PBL and webinar-based learning. Finally, the ONL community itself. In this post, I set out my reflections on each of these three factors. The Content Having taught for 14 years, I returned to being a student in 2020. So my experience with online teaching has been as a student rather than an educator. I have not, therefore, had the opportunity to think through some of the pedagogical questions about the online learning experience. And prior to then, the schol
