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Chapter 42. The Math Emporium Barbara L. Robinson and Anne H. Moore Virginia Tech's Math Emporium is an open, 60,000-square-foot laboratory with 550 Macintosh computers serving more than 8,000 math students each semester. The facility occupies renovated, leased space in an off-campus shopping mall. (See Figure 1.)

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.

I found this article from the Journal of Asynchronous Learning to be an interesting assessment of the effectiveness of blended courses in a specific university. I particularly like the research methodology and the way in which assessment incorporated student and instructor feedback.

Thank you for sharing!! It is a very useful article to complete the Blendkit readings!

Despite the widespread popularity of online social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, many students exhibit a reluctance to include faculty in their social networks. Given these personal preferences, how do social networks and education intersect? A pilot using Twitter to communicate important information about lab hours and support services yielded minimal student response.

How can you determine how well your blended delivery is working for your students? How can you gather information that will enable you to improve your blended design in the future?

The second half of the article describes the benefits of blended-learning over MOOCs.

"End of Semester Evaluation Form Student Survey of Teachers Teacher Assessment Survey Teacher Feedback Form Course Evaluation Form Evaluation of Teacher Use of Technology Form Daily Feedback Form"

In redesigning introductory mathematics courses, NCAT's partner institutions have found that the Emporium Model has consistently produced spectacular gains in student learning and impressive reductions in instructional costs. Two different versions of the Emporium Model have been successful.

Mobile Learning - Are we designing our courses to meet these students?

Educators are faced with the challenge of adapting their teaching styles to accommodate a new generation of learners. The Net Generation or Millennials, who are now entering colleges and universities, have learning expectations, styles, and needs different from past students.

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!

Analytics will help you determine course design, level of engagement from the student, etc. Here is one of many articles about Analytics.

Love this slideshare that shows the rapid development of tech. Our students are all over this and we need to be too.