1. #FDOL131
Hello and
welcome to
the
#FDOL131
webinar.
Flexible, Distance and Online Learning an open course using COOL FISh
http://fdol.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @openfdol #fdol131
unit 6: celebrating learning
FDOL team and participants
2 May 13, 7-8pm(UK time)

2. This unit will give learners and facilitators the opportunity to share and
celebrate learning that happened during this module. Learners will be invited
to reflect and review their learning during the module and showcase and
share with others what they have gained through this learning experience.
What effect has their engagement with this course had on their practice?
What were the benefits and what the challenges? In what ways has FDOL
been useful for them? What are the next steps?
unit 6: celebrating learning
Chrissi

3. By the end of this unit, learners will have had the
opportunity to
• Showcase their learning achievements and share
experiences
• Discuss difficulties experienced and how these have
been overcome
• Critically explore opportunities for further
development linked to flexible, distance and online
learning
unit 6: intended learning
outcomes

4. Sharing experiences
Sharing experiences and learning: Looking back and ahead
mini presentations by the groups (5-10 minutes per group)
1.PBL group 1
2.PBL group 2
3.PBL group 3
4.PBL group 5/6

5. • course was challenging but rewarding
• everybody learnt
• useful to be a learner and experience difficulties in preparation for teaching online
• developed confidence
• developed better understanding of how to use tech more effectively in own practice
• exploring opportunities for application in own practice
• community feel was important > how to achieve this?
– getting to know each other through synchronous online ‘events’ such as hangouts and webinars made a huge
difference, hearing a voice, seeing a person made it human
– more early hangouts
– increased commitment when you know the others
– bonding happened through engagement
– learning to trust
• COOL FISH useful and simple: speeded up working in groups, to keep on track
• tutor support was vital, knowing that there was somebody there when needed, especially at the beginning
• more peer-to-peer learning and feedback with other groups
• central feedback space, buddy system could be developed
summary of participants’
experiences shared during webinar

6. FDOL131
facilitated
PBL groups
non-facilitated
PBL groups
autonomous
learners
multi-disciplinary
cross-institutional
•core members
•peripheral members
groups have been re-
structured a couple of
times during the course
self-organised self-directed
self-organised
• Registered before start: 80 (PBL groups: 64 (core: 46
peripheral: 18) + autonomous 16)
• Not confirmed to PBL groups or early drop-outs : 22
• Signed up in FDOL131 Google+: 45
• Participants in webinars: 10-20
• Remaining participants: 16-20??

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11. FDOL131 PBL facilitators
•learning
•achievement
•challenges
•next steps
before during after
•exciting opportunity
•trust in relationship
•getting to know each other with
other facilitators and participants
not always easy
•big question: will it work and to
what extend?
•Who does what? Happened
naturally
•Transparency, openness, problem
solving among facilitators very
smooth > social media (Skype,
Facebook, Google +)
•Grouping over-engineered?
initial
•silence
•confusion
•disorientation
Was the design too complex?
Careful observation
Changes as we were going along
Situation stabilised by unit 3
Supporting groups was a varied
experience from very positive
experience > impressed with
groups’ autonomy and
commitment to confusing?
Evaluation
what have we learnt?
Re-thinking, re-fining approach
What next?
changes for the next version?
•grouping
•COOL FISh (core-peripheral?)
•diigo didn’t work
•start from the community space
and NOT the Wordpress site
•wider discussions?
•webinars more input from
participants, limit/no external
speakers?
•portfolios

12. #FDOL131
Flexible, Distance and Online Learning an open course using COOL FISh
http://fdol.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @openfdol #fdol131
Thank you for
joining us today
and see you online
this was our last webinar
Thank you for participating in #FDOL131!
We will be in touch and
hope you will help us evaluate this open course.

13. #FDOL131 organisers
and facilitators
Chrissi Nerantzi
Academic Developer
University of Salford, UK
FDOL organiser
PBL facilitator
Lars Uhlin
Educational Developer
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
FDOL organiser
PBL facilitator
Maria Kvarnström
Educational Developer
Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden
PBL facilitator