Posts Tagged ‘blended learning’
February 22 - Using Blended Learning to Transform the Classroom Experience
By: Ike Shibley, PhD. in Instructional Design
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.
February 21 - Putting the Learning in Blended Learning
By: Ike Shibley, PhD. in Instructional Design
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.
January 5 - The Benefits of Blended Learning Explained
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
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.
October 29 - New Ideas for Selling Blended Learning to Your Faculty
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
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.
October 25 - Lecture Capture: A New Way to Think about Hybrid Courses
By: John Orlando, PhD in Instructional Design, Teaching with Technology
“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.
May 24 - Structuring Blended Courses for Maximum Student Engagement
By: Rob Kelly in Instructional Design
Blended learning is gaining momentum in higher education…and for a very good reason. According to the U.S. Department of Education, blended learning can improve learning outcomes. To achieve better learning outcomes, however, blended courses need to be carefully structured to engage learners.
May 5 - Blended Learning Course Design Begins with Strong Learning Objectives
By: Magna Publications in Instructional Design
When you undertake a blended learning course, you can’t just think about what assignments and activities you are going to move online. You have to reconceptualize the entire course. This means starting with your learning goals. The place to begin is by asking yourself: What do I want students to learn?
March 24 - The Benefits of Blended Learning
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Blended learning, which combines face-to-face learning with a mixture of online activities, has been hailed as both a cost-effective way to relieve overcrowded classroom and a convenient alternative to the traditional classroom experience. But it has quickly become much more than that.
January 19 - Organizing Blended Courses for Optimal Student Engagement
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Traditional face-to-face courses focus mainly on what happens during class. That leaves a lot of time underutilized. Learn how to add an online learning component to create a blended course that improves student learning and makes class time even more productive.
October 15 - ‘The World is Open’ Captures the Transformative Powers of Web Technologies
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
At its heart, The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education is based on the premise that “anyone can now learn anything from anyone at anytime.”(p. 7)
