We are, Joanne Ashworth and Neil Withnell from the University of Salford UK and Lars Ohrmalm and Aida Wahlgren from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Chrissi Nerantzi, our facilitator is an academic developer at the University of Salford.



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Saturday 23 March 2013

Preparation for FDOL 131 PBL


UNIT 1 Orientation 


This gave us all chance to log in, familiarise ourselves with learning spaces and to make contact with group members. 

Our original communication, which we did via our group space 
FDOL 131 PBL group 1  revealed that we had different backgrounds in terms of our role in education and our experience of open learning and of problem based learning (PBL).


Unit 2 Introduction to FDOL 

We decided to have a hangout (simple online tool provided by Google+) to meet and discuss how we would like to collaborate during the course.  

Our hangout gave us chance to meet face to face. This tells us that online or distance learning doesn't have to be isolating.  

We identified that some members of the group had no experience of PBL as a participant or as a facilitator and so it seemed appropriate to propose that we should hold a pilot PBL session, using this as a trigger.  We suggested that this would help to prepare us for the forthcoming PBL in units 3-5.

We chose to open a simultaneous thread to use as our discussion space for the pilot  FDOL 131 Group 1 Pilot  






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