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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.

Great resources for assessment strategies in a variety of formats.

Very useful tools, indeed. Thanks for finding this Dean.

This is an international consortium about quality blended learning.

We've been using Quality Matters for several years and although it might appear that the focus is "quality in online courses", the rubric and process works well for blended learning as well. https://www.qualitymatters.org/

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.

An specific Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT) has to be evaluated for its use in blended learning environment, if online of offline.

Increasingly, faculty who teach an online course may not be the ones who actually designed the course. Thus, current measurements, especially those that focus on course design and innovation, are not appropriate tools for assessing these faculty members. Instead, the authors assert: "We must look at the actions performed by the instructors within the course." The objective of the authors' study was "to identify a set of criteria that would yield objective data easily examined by supervisors and peers during an online course observation and serve as a balance to the more subjective data gathered from student surveys." The authors identified six questions to be used as a starting point for evaluating online instructors. These questions are copied below verbatim: Has the instructor logged in at least an average of every other day? Has the instructor posted a biography of at least a paragraph, in addition to contact info? Has the instructor posted announcements at least weekly? Is there evidence that the instructor answers student inquiries in two days or less? Does the instructor participate in discussion forums where appropriate? Does the instructor provide feedback on assignments? This article is an excellent resource because it clearly delineates between design and instruction. It also provides the six very concrete questions to use when evaluating instructors.