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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Tuesday 26 March 2013

Unit 3, where do we start?

In preparation for Unit 3 we started early with a Hangout, which enabled us to discuss the unit and our own expectations. This was helpful and set the scene for the work to follow.

A new discussion space was created by Aida.  https://plus.google.com/109085261194966910437/posts

We then needed to decide on a suitable PBL trigger/scenario that aligned with the aims of this unit. We very quickly managed to agree on a suitable scenario and from that some great team work enabled us to identify 3 learning outcomes.

We divided the outcomes between ourselves and set off to 'Investigate' ....

As we had used drop box for the PBL pilot we wanted to try something different so agreed to try Google Drive.

For this unit Aida and Lars enjoyed collaborating on learning objective 2 by means of hangout, email and sharing work in google drive.  The use of google drive enabled us all to see the work done by others and comment on findings.  A summary was produced as a poster which was made available for appraisal by the group and facilitator before a final draft being ready for sharing. This enabled us to consolidate learning and check that objectives had been met.  We were unsure how to share our findings with the FDOL community and sought advice from our facilitator.

So far no-one has offered any feedback but we do welcome any comments.  Neil has posted our poster on the following discussion forum;

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102772793404931941723


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