BlendKit

A peer review guide for the teaching of an already existing hybrid course. Based upon Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education"

Many of us who teach in higher education do not have a teaching background, nor do we have experience in curriculum development. We know our content areas and are experts in our fields, but structuring learning experiences for students may or may not be our strong suit. We've written a syllabus (or were handed one to use) and have developed some pretty impressive assessments, projects, and papers in order to evaluate our students' progress through the content. Sometimes we discover that students either don't perform well on the learning experiences we've designed or they experience a great deal of frustration with what they consider high stakes assignments. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1978) proposes that it's important to determine the area (zone) between what a student can accomplish unaided and what that same student can accomplish with assistance.

Many of us who teach in higher education do not have a teaching background, nor do we have experience in curriculum development. We know our content areas and are experts in our fields, but structuring learning experiences for students may or may not be our strong suit. We've written a syllabus (or were handed one to use) and have developed some pretty impressive assessments, projects, and papers in order to evaluate our students' progress through the content. Sometimes we discover that students either don't perform well on the learning experiences we've designed or they experience a great deal of frustration with what they consider high stakes assignments. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1978) proposes that it's important to determine the area (zone) between what a student can accomplish unaided and what that same student can accomplish with assistance.

Many of us who teach in higher education do not have a teaching background, nor do we have experience in curriculum development. We know our content areas and are experts in our fields, but structuring learning experiences for students may or may not be our strong suit.

"Using Blooms Taxonomy to Design E-learning"

A lot of Videos about Blende Learning

Since we are talking about content during week 4, I want to share some OER sites. SLCC is moving toward open textbook and other open resources.

this is an amazing treasure trove!

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

An older article, but still gets you thinking about your discussion boards.

A Slideshare presentation

This is an interesting auto ethnographic study of online learning - strikes me as a parallel method to the one Kelvin Thompson explores in his thesis: http://onlinecoursecriticism.blogspot.com.au/2005/08/overview-of-online-course-criticism.html

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.

Since we are talking about content during week 4, I want to share some OER sites. SLCC is moving toward open textbook and other open resources.

EDpuzzle provides a very helpful video curation service. You can source videos from 10 online sources (e.g. TED, YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.). The videos can be edited and questions added. What I find most helpful is the learner tracking features, you can actually see what your learners actually do.

"There are Many Elements That can be Fine-Tuned to Bring out the Best in Online and Hybrid Teaching and Learning."

Adobe recently released this free App that allows you to easily create videos in minutes using pre-existing images.

Microsoft Office recently released this free add-on that allows you to easily record your lecture or presentation within PowerPoint, add interactivity including quizzes / external content, etc.