blended learning
Ten Ways to Improve Blended Course Design
You don’t need to choose between online learning and face-to-face instruction. With blended courses you can get the best of both worlds: The cost efficiencies of an online learning experience combined with invaluable face-to-face interaction. This video seminar explains how to successfully transform your current courses into blended courses.
video Online Seminar • Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 • 2:00 pm Eastern
Getting Started with Blended Learning Course Design
Blended learning is often described as the best of both worlds because it combines elements of face-to-face and online learning. For an instructor getting ready to teach his first blended course, the temptation may be to look at his traditional course syllabus, pick which classes can be moved online and then leave the rest of the syllabus as it has always been.
Recent Seminars
Finding the Right Technology to Support Learning Outcomes
Blended instruction can lead to improved student performance and lower costs. But, like anything, it only works if you do it correctly. This seminar will provide you with the knowledge needed to make smart, informed decisions about blended instruction and blended course design.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Lecture Capture Can Change Classroom Dynamics for the Better
When I heard a teacher tell me that they were creating recorded lectures for courses as homework assignments and spending classroom time on discussions and more active learning, I knew right then the value of the lecture capture tools.
Community Colleges Continue to Grow Online
Community colleges saw a nine percent increase in distance learning enrollments in the 2009-10 academic year, according to a survey by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Using Blended Learning to Transform the Classroom Experience
When we maintain our focus on learning, the means used to help students learn dominates our thinking. Too often teachers can fall into the trap of testing students only on lower-level material (knowledge and comprehension questions). When exams become the only means to assess learning, a teacher becomes a carpenter with only a hammer: all problems start to seem like nails.
Putting the Learning in Blended Learning
Blending learning involves using a combination of face-to-face interactions and online interactions in the same course. Students still regularly meet in the classroom in a blended course, but the frequency of those meetings is usually decreased. The goal of blended learning is to facilitate greater student learning and could thus fit within a learner-centered paradigm.
The Benefits of Blended Learning Explained
Blended learning — a strategy that combines online and classroom learning activities and resources to reduce in-class seat time for students in a face-to-face environment — can be a tremendous boon for a university. It can help the institution enhance under-enrolled programs, complete faculty teaching loads, and improve cost effectiveness. However, convincing the institution’s constituents that a blended course or program is a good idea may take some work.
New Ideas for Selling Blended Learning to Your Faculty
There’s a lot of interest in blended learning of late, but there’s also a lot of fear about what it will mean for faculty. This seminar explains how blended learning can enhance pedagogy without burdening faculty or cramping their teaching style.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Lecture Capture: A New Way to Think about Hybrid Courses
“Hybrid education” has become a hot catchphrase recently as faculty blend face-to-face learning with online technology. But the growth of hybrid education has been steered by the unstated assumption that hybrid technology should be used to facilitate discussion outside of the classroom, while classroom time should be spent lecturing.
