online professional program – Dr. Swapna Kumar

Assessing transformative learning

Posted on December 11, 2014

Enjoyed the intense discussions on online learning and its implications for professional adults and transformative learning during the European Distance Education Network’s 8th Research Workshop in Oxford, UK, 2014. In online professional programs where the educational design carefully scaffolds and aims for transformation, students should ideally be better able to make connections between practice and…

E-portfolios and threshold crossings

Posted on September 8, 2014

Dr. Patrica Arnold from the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany, presented these two papers that we co-authored: “E-Portfolios – Fostering systematic reflection in social work education.” in the learning and collaboration technologies category at the Human Computer Interaction International conference in June 2014 in Greece. This paper is about integrating e-portfolios in the educational…