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As electronic communication becomes increasingly common, and as students juggle study, work, and family life, many universities are offering their students more flexible learning opportunities. Classes once delivered face-to-face are often replaced by online activities and discussions. However, there is little research comparing students' experience and learning in these two modalities.

I had the same thing happen to me: I was using a model without knowing it was a model! I'm glad I now have vocabulary to describe my work in the classroom.

A hybrid course is much more than just an online course with a face-to-face class session thrown in for good measure. It involves asking, "What is the best way for students to interact with course content, construct knowledge, engage in critical thinking and problem solving?"

A good simple approach. A three staged process for blended learning design: Absorb - Do - Connect

"The process model consists of three stages: Absorb-During this stage, students are gaining basic knowledge. This can include reading a chapter in the textbook. Do-Students then engage in an activity such as a discussion before the face-to-face session (in the case of a blended course) or a synchronous online session in the case of a totally online course. Connect-Students apply knowledge to real-world situations."

I've helped faculty implement this model in online courses and think it has been very successful. While a model like ADDIE provides a structured approach to designing an entire course, this Absorb, Do, Connect model, along with models like Gagne's 9 events of instruction provide us with models for how to structure individual lessons and keep them consistent.

Explanation of how to use online class guides to explain to students what is expected in the online and face-to-face portion of a blended / hybrid course. I typically encourage a daily schedule for each face-to-face meeting that is broken down into before class, during class, and after class.

Good resource listing steps involved in designing a hybrid course.

This has a nice list of FTF and Online appropriate learning activities. The terms hybrid and blended are used interchangeably to describe a course in which less than half all of the instruction is delivered online. Traditional face-to-face instruction is reduced but not eliminated. With a hybrid course, the goal is to optimize student engagement by taking advantage of the strengths of both the face-to-face and Web-based environments.

Great resource - thanks!

April 28, 2014 In its basic and simplest definition, blended learning is an instructional methodology, a teaching and learning approach that combines face-to-face classroom methods with computer mediated activities to deliver instruction. The strengths of this instructional approach is its combination of both face to face and online teaching methods into one integrated instructional approach.

This article may have been more suited for last week but hey better late than never

Simmons College instructor Karen Teeley describes her decision-making process for deciding what goes online and what goes face-to-face in her blended learning course. This case study features short video clips, complete text transcript, and an example simulation exercise from Teeley's course. In addition, she provides a sample welcome letter, student expectations statement, and a couple of evaluation rubrics from her blended course.

Today, blended learning has become a more mature market. Many traditional classes have blended elements integrated into their structure, and we now have concepts like "the flipped classroom," indicating a strategy in which delivery of informational content occurs outside of class instead of during in-class lecture, freeing the face-to-face time for interactive activities.

Blended learning course design entails more than simply converting content for online delivery or finding ways to supplement an existing face-to-face course. Ideally, designing a blended course would begin with identifying learning outcomes and topics, creating assignments and activities, determining how interaction will occur, and selecting the technologies to best achieve those learning outcomes.

BlendKit Course: BlendKit Reader: Chapter 1

A majority of the time when hybrid/blended learning courses are created, they also incorporate a "flipped classroom" approach. This approach includes having online lectures done outside of the classroom prior to class and using in-class time for active hands-on application that extends learning. To help clarify what is expected prior to class and what is expected after the face-to-face session having separate objectives as stated in this article is a good best practice.

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.

This document provides 10 cases with examples of how teachers have implemented blended learning in classes with more that 100 students. But If you do not want to read all of it, it has like a summary of cases grouped according to what calls your attention. E.g "Flipping the traditional lecture (or equivalent resource) into the on-line space to allow for greater gains in the face-to-face aspect" and then it shows you which cases applied that.

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

A backchannel -- a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity -- provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation. Every time I think about this tool, I remember my student, Charlie (not his real name). Given his learning challenges, he struggled to keep up during class discussions.