Exploring Blended Learning Strategies
In higher education, the need for blended learning strategies will continue to grow. This resource guide will help you facilitate a fast change to engaging
Faculty Focus
August 13, 2021
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Five Tips to Creating a More Engaging Online Course for Adult Learners
As society has evolved, so too has education. To meet the changing needs of our world, an explosion of online education has focused on adult
Jacqueline Crockford, MS
February 26, 2021
Getting Started with Blended Learning Videos
“There’s just not enough time in class with students!” It’s a common faculty complaint, and when students are provided quality course materials they can use outside class, this blended learning approach gives faculty more time in class. A variety of materials can be developed for use outside class. In this article, we’d like to focus on creating video content that students use for a blended learning course.
Anthony R. Sweat, PhD, and Kenneth Alford, PhD
February 17, 2017
Professor and Students Share Reactions to the Flipped Classroom
Professor Philip LaRocco is reimagining his Energy Business and Economic Development course with digitized lecture materials, collaborative assignments, and real-time feedback. With funding from Columbia University’s Office of the Provost, LaRocco teamed up with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) to build a learning environment more conducive to the world in which his students currently intern, and plan to work in post-graduation. He is following a “flipped classroom” model—filming some of his lectures and making them available to students prior to class meetings—making way for more elaborate group review, discussions, and other collaborative assignments during class.
Sarohini Chahal
May 15, 2015
Thinking Horizontally and Vertically About Blended Learning
Blended learning has gone from being an interesting new hybrid of traditional and online courses to being an expected part of American education. When the Sloan Consortium last studied blended learning in 2007, it found “a lot of room for growth” in the market for blended courses. It found “consumer preference for online and blended delivery far exceeds reported experience,” indicating that demand was ahead of supply at that point.
Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti
November 20, 2014
Formative Assessment: The Secret Sauce of Blended Success
A few weeks ago, a colleague emailed me about some trouble she was having with her first attempt at blended instruction. She had created some videos to pre-teach a concept, incorporated some active learning strategies into her face-to-face class to build on the video, and assigned an online quiz so she could assess what the students had learned. After grading the quizzes, however, she found that many of the students struggled with the concept. “Maybe,” she wondered, “blended instruction won’t work with my content area.”
Oliver Dreon, PhD
July 23, 2014
Exploring New Models with Blended and Flipped Learning
Featuring six articles dedicated to blended learning and six articles on the flipped classroom, this free report provides an inside look at how faculty are using these approaches to reshape the college classroom.
Faculty Focus
July 8, 2014
Blended Learning: Integrating Online and Face-to-Face Courses
Blended learning entails more than simply replacing class time with online course elements or supplementing an online course with face-to-face meetings. To be successful, the online and face-to-face modes need to be integrated by taking into account the learning objectives and the affordances of each mode and deliberately linking what occurs in each mode.
Rob Kelly
December 12, 2013
Survey Confirms Growth of the Flipped Classroom
A survey conducted by the Center for Digital Education and Sonic Foundry found that 29 percent of faculty are currently using the flipped classroom model of instruction, with another 27 percent saying they plan to use it within the next 12 months.
Mary Bart
November 20, 2013
The Process Approach to Online and Blended Learning
Nate Cottle, professor of human environmental sciences at the University of Central Oklahoma, uses the process approach to learning as delineated by William Horton (2006) in his online and blended courses. Cottle spoke to Online Classroom about using this model. “Learning isn’t something that has to be confined to the classroom, and so as I teach blended classes, I think the more I can involve the students in learning and the more contexts I can involve them in, the more they’re going to learn,” he said. “The idea is to get them to slowly digest the information in different ways and to engage in different activities so that by the time the course comes to an end, they can apply the knowledge they have learned. That’s the ultimate goal: to get them to be in a state where they can apply the knowledge.”
Rob Kelly
October 24, 2013