hybrid courses
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
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.
Recent Seminars
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.
Organizing Blended Courses for Optimal Student Engagement
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.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Blended Learning Course Design
Blended learning is revolutionizing college classrooms across the country by bringing together the best elements of traditional and online learning. Don’t be left behind by one of the most exciting and promising trends ever to hit higher education.
Strategies for Teaching Blended Learning Courses, Maybe You (and Your Students) Can Have It All
Blended learning, which combines face-to-face and online learning activities into a single course, has experienced tremendous growth during the past few years. A blended learning course (also called a hybrid course) can satisfy students’ need for flexibility, as well as alleviate overcrowded classrooms. However, the biggest benefit to a well-designed blended course is a much improved teaching and learning experience.
Seven Ways to Improve Student Satisfaction in Online Courses
Preparing students for the online learning experience and managing expectations are critical to student satisfaction, says Marie Gould, assistant professor and program manager of Business Administration, and Denise Padavano, associate professor and program manager, Information Technology, both of Peirce College. Students at Peirce College (whether they are face-to-face or online students) are required to take
10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design
Blended learning brings together the strongest elements of face-to-face and online teaching, creating a uniquely rich learning experience. The time is right to embrace blended learning, and this new seminar is a great place to start!
Dr. Ike Shibley is an associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks, a small four-year college within the Penn State system. An engaging and animated presenter, his pedagogical research interests involve exploring ways to facilitate cognitive development in college students and finding the most productive methods for enhancing student learning. He has won university-wide teaching awards and enjoys mentoring new teachers.