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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

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