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Distance Education | Spotlight Using Online and Blended Learning To Help Students Design Their Educational Experience For Julie Young, who recently announced her retirement as president and CEO of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), the journey to online and blended learning began with her organization's mission: "To deliver high-quality technology-based education that provides the skills and knowledge students need for success."

Interesting article about a design course using Ning as an LMS introduces the notion that "social presence" is an important piece of the blended learning puzzle

This slideshow is an interesting mix of content and graphic design from UpsideLearning.com. Their Resources web page has lots of useful info, too.

Report from the Oxford Group on Blended Learning

Hybrid Pedagogy is an incredible resource for digital pedagogy, higher ed, and teaching and learning in the 21st century. I responded to this post; I agree with some, but not all of it. A good read.

The ZONE learning community: Gaining knowledge through mentoring

Since we are learning about assessment in week 3, here are 20 slides sharing thoughts on how to reply to students as well as more ideas on assessments.

Blended learning according to Wikipedia

Interview with one of the contributors to the Innosight report on K12 blended learning. She contrasts blended learning's potential for disrupting the status quo with its possible use as a sustaining influence on existing educational structures.

"Would you ever say that to me in class?": Exploring the Implications of Disinhibition for Relationality in Online Teaching and Learning by Ellen Rose

In support of my blog post at http://learning-technologically.blogspot.com/2014/05/consistency-for-blended-learning-but.html

Educause's ELI was mentioned in the week 5 webinar. Here are materials from one of their webinars covering evaluation of the course from the assignments perspective. This can lead back to student value of the class.

Blended Learning Glossary

Comparison of different distance learning technologies on adult learners, with some comparison of asynchronous and synchronous instruction. I am blending asynchronous and synchronous instruction in a graduate-level course I am teaching.

"Metta (www.metta.io) is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create lessons using audio, videos, and images from your computer or from the web. It is a great online app for creating short flipped or blended lessons for students to help them learn outside of the classroom. With this outstanding web application, teachers can easily create a digital content based story, supplemented with images and text. Teachers can also include poll questions in order to test the knowledge of students. So, with Metta, you can easily combine multimedia elements together to produce an awesome digital lesson." (Source: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/10/create-digital-learning-content-easily-combining-parts-one-more-videos-with-images-text-audio-using-metta/)

This is an audio interview about online learning, mostly focusing on MOOCs. An interesting point of view regarding the availability and egalitarian nature of MOOCs as opposed to education provided through expensive universities. Although this is not exactly blended learning, as it focuses on totally online courses, I though it would be an interesting addition to the discourse.

Interesting resource to extend assessment options, how to create successful assessments and rubrics, and provides some more resources for those thinking about types of blended learning assessments for courses.

Blended learning is a diverse and expanding area of design and inquiry that combines face-to-face and online modalities. As blended learning research matures, numerous voices enter the conversation. This study begins the search for the center of this emerging area of study by finding the most cited scholarship on blended learning.