Group items tagged

Good food for thought (and flashback to Blendkit2014 week 2) from Justin Reich's blog this week. Let's keep this blended learning design process focused on meaningful interaction.

If you're interested in setting up a Blended Learning course (a hybrid/ flipped class), you should check out the current Canvas.net course sponsored by EDUCAUSE and the University of Central Florida: Blendkit2014-Becoming a Blended Learning Designer.

In the BlendKit2014 Week 01 Webinar, there was a reference to 'backwards planning'. This idea comes from Dee Fink. This article by Fink is a helpful primer on this work.

This paper by Terry Anderson and Jon Dron of Athabasca University is relevant to our discussions in Blended Learning. Although their focus is pure distance education, the constructs presented in their material are relevant to our BlendKit2014 work. I think we need to be more clear about how our pedagogical approach drives our learning design.

A peer review guide for the teaching of an already existing hybrid course. Based upon Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education"

I recently remembered this article published in The Chronicle of Higher Ed a few years ago. It speaks volumes about some pros and cons (mostly pros) of using technologies like Twitter, online office hours, video chat, etc. to connect to super-sized classes. Though I do not have personal experience in teaching courses with this many students, I still think this teacher has found a way to utilize modern technologies to connect to students in new and important ways. He has taken what many of us would consider a nightmare classroom situation (teaching over 2000 students!) and made it into a classroom experience like no other. If you read through the comments, you'll see that his former students say he has changed their lives and that his was the best class they've ever taken. It's amazing to me that he is/was able to create personal connections with so many students using technology. Basically, if this guy can do it with 2,000+ students, then many of us should strongly consider how we might benefit from these technologies in our own hybrid courses.

This definition says that blended learning is about combining online learning with traditional schools to create an integrated learning experience, with some students' control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of their learning.

Interesting to think about leveraging our "localness". This is part of broader research from Sloan that posits that local universities and colleges can leverage their local brand when they establish quality online or blended courses. Not everyone is going to do the MOOC at Harvard just because it is being offered by a big name university. They may well go with a trusted local brand particularly if we offer a blend of online and personalised experience.

A good resource here. JISCNetskills provides training throughout the UK Higher Ed sector and they have a lot of their course guides online. This gives a very good basic introduction to theories and models of elearning. Some good ideas on sequencing.

I think creating a blended course for language teachers (in my case English) is a real challenge, especially when you have to decide the moment to do speaking practice (online) or (F2f). This resource gives you among other things, a guide to create language learning blended courses. Suuper cool! for EFL(English as a foreign language) teachers.

Thanks Margarita! I am also a Foreign Language Teaching and this information is very useful for me!

Tanks! A great resource.

Blended or hybrid learning, an instructional delivery mode in which instruction is conducted partly online and partly face-to-face, has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and most successful instructional models to deliver flexible learning options for today's learners. This site I think would serve us instructional designers who, after this MOOC would have to deliver professional development training to our faculty. This, together with the course materials in BlendKit would make for an awesome PD experience.

Tony Bates' blog commenting on the UBC case study mentioned in my previous bookmark post.

Discusses the ways in which online learning can improve the campus experience using the University of British Columbia as an example. See also Tony Bates' blog about this

Very good background article on different ways of thinking about blended learning - beyond simple definitions of integrating online and face-to-face - to a range of foci e.g. skill-driven to mixing various theories of learning

"School districts are flipping education on its head with mobile and online teaching tools" by WYLIE WONG

Use this application to develop instructional objectives for your courses and instructional programs.

Thanks so much for this reference. A great resource that I can put to use immediately.

Wow! A wonderful tool! Useful for all persons designing courses. Thank you!

I liked the term "techno expression" , and I related it immediately with the concept "sensemaking artifact" by George Siemens. I think both are similar and share the same idea of innovative and "authentic" assignments.