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  #1 blendeddesign on 15 May 14

   

  Written Reaction to Week 4 Reading
  Learning activities are perhaps the area where the most potential for a course is and also the potential for a course to fall flat, especially when it is a blended course. Routine forms of content, assessments, and assignments are good for establishing consistency in the course, but the learning activities can and should be varied to encourage student engagement. Presenting content in written form can be a guideline for the course, but the way in which student engage with the material should foster interest and utilize different learning modalities. Students can explore different online materials on their own and then bring that to the face-to-face interactions in class. Technology increases the ways in which students can engage with one another and the material other that reading content and being tested on it. The reading provides a great list summarizing some of the specific tools and activities students may use (e.g. presentation software, games, video conferencing, etc.).
  The activities then become the heart of the course and this is what I am personally concerned about in designing online and blended courses. My greatest fear would be that the course falls flat in these respects and that the activities are not engaging the students (I suppose that this is all teachers' fear). The reading describes the different ways in which online and face-to-face components can be utilized and integrated to provide an even more engaging learning environment than a face-to-face course can offer alone.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Written Reaction to Week 4 Reading <br /> Learning activities are perhaps the area where the most potential for a course is and also the potential for a course to fall flat, especially when it is a blended course. Routine forms of content, assessments, and assignments are good for establishing consistency in the course, but the learning activities can and should be varied to encourage student engagement. Presenting content in written form can be a guideline for the course, but the way in which student engage with the material should foster interest and utilize different learning modalities. Students can explore different online materials on their own and then bring that to the face-to-face interactions in class. Technology increases the ways in which students can engage with one another and the material other that reading content and being tested on it. The reading provides a great list summarizing some of the specific tools and activities students may use (e.g. presentation software, games, video conferencing, etc.). <br /> The activities then become the heart of the course and this is what I am personally concerned about in designing online and blended courses. My greatest fear would be that the course falls flat in these respects and that the activities are not engaging the students (I suppose that this is all teachers' fear). The reading describes the different ways in which online and face-to-face components can be utilized and integrated to provide an even more engaging learning environment than a face-to-face course can offer alone.</div>

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