BlendKit

This is quite informal and general, but the good thing is that they are only infographics and you can read the information quite quickly. I use it as a first contact or introduction to a point/a theme.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

This paper proposes a new model of blended learning in which physical teaching environments give way to time. Time and synchronicity become the primary elements of the learning environments. In addition, the authors suggest that the time-based model as an educational "new normal" results in technologies as enablers rather than disruptors of learning continuity.

G. Conole, et al. (2004) provide an interesting perspective on how technology tools might be mapped against your learning intent. I recommend this strategy when deciding how to blend.

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

"This study will provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of blended learning in teaching evidence based practice (EBP) to a cohort of undergraduate and graduate-entry medical students."

Blended learning was statistically significantly better than traditional learning in all domains of the educational environment, except for social perception, and in all types of examination: written, objective structured clinical and case scenarios.

Nice free tool for creating online course materials. User friendly, but haven't been able to publish my course yet because the image upload feature doesn't work with Safari on a Mac.

The UWM Learning Technology Center (LTC) is the campus center that assists faculty, teaching academic staff, and teaching assistants in their efforts to use instructional technology to enhance teaching and learning. Site contains some good ideas to support faculty development.

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

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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

The University of Manitoba's Learning Technologies Centre has assembled a brief literature review on blended learning formats/definitions. This brief compilation surfaces the complexities inherent in blended learning approaches

The LTC server at the University of Manitoba has been decommissioned and so this link no longer works. In my (ultimately unsuccessful) search for this lit review, I came across this 2011 COHERE report on blended learning: http://cohere.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/REPORT-ON-BLENDED-LEARNING-FINAL1.pdf; there's a decent reference list at the end of the document. COHERE is a Canadian group, Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research.