Bring Design Thinking to Your Online Course!

There are many creative problem-solving methods. Today, we will write about design thinking, an approach that gained popularity and spilt from the business world to education and beyond. You can teach it to your learners, but today we will give some ideas for using it in the course design process.  Design thinking is based on […]

Socio-Digital Participation

How to engage learners and boost their participation with the learning material is one of the hot topics of digital education worldwide. Here, we will take a step back and think about how to engage learners that are already digitally active. Simply put, all digital activities can be conceptualised as socio-digital participation.  Socio-digital practices have […]

Bringing Service Learning Online

Service-learning is a pedagogical strategy that includes community engagement in learners’ curricula. Learners develop their social and civic competencies, as well as their personal and academic skills, and contribute to society!  Service-learning aims to help learners become “whole humans” and responsible citizens.  PLACE MODEL of Service Learning – Online!  Service learning is composed of multiple […]

My digital transformation story – by a digital coach-trainer-researcher

In the last 2+ years, we have all probably experienced some form or degree of the digital transition. Personally, for example, I became a full-time digital coach and trainer, wrote my dissertation without going to any brick-and-mortar library – although I did order a few paper books from Amazon and had to print the final […]

Know Thy Learners: Doing Needs Assessment

Time of huge auditoriums or Zoom calls of learners that quietly and diligently take notes while the orator speaks has shown us that it’s not an optimal way to learn, especially gain (soft) skills. Today, we will write about easy methods that you can use to truly come to know your learners to provide experiential, […]

Maslow Before Bloom – on Zoom?

„Maslow Before Bloom“ is an expression that gained much buzz and media coverage during pandemic online education and can still be heard when talking about digital education today. What does it mean, and how can you make it work in Zoom or a similar environment?  Maslow and Bloom Unveiled  What motivates people? What makes them […]

Trainers’ Toolkit – Energy factory

Exercise nr 47: Energy factory Duration 5 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Stimulating your body and mind, energizing participants, activating and opening their bodies. Group size  3-20 participants Hashtags #energy #movement #break Apps Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Hangouts or other.  Materials  No additional materials […]

Trainers’ Toolkit – Piece of paper

Exercise nr 46: Piece of paper  Duration 10 min Type of activity Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive The goal of the exercise Sensory stimulation and relaxing the body. Group size  3-18 participants Hashtags #senses #relax #focus Apps Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Hangouts or other,  Materials  Tell participants to prepare themselves a piece of […]

How Can Quizzes Boost the Performance and Engagement of Learners?

The quizzes we will discuss are not formal assessments but informal ones that students can access without „regular“ testing pressure. They are easy to use, a widely available tool with great free options like Google Forms. Using quizzes leads to significantly greater motivation to learn and perception of learning in learners; it can help with […]

ASSIGNING AND CREATING SELF-STUDY MATERIALS: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Through fostering the use of self-study materials, the role of the educator changes from traditional (as a broadcaster of information, performer, entertainer) to a more modern and innovative one that aligns with digital education. That does not mean that the learners do not need the educator, but that the responsibilities for the learning process put […]