"common questions related to designing a blended course is how to choose what is best taught online"
This quick article is a snapshot of interesting ideas on what should be face-to-face and what might be online.
He uses the flexibility to manage time, place and pace, accommodating his learning needs and preferences.
students have the option to combine online and traditional courses as part of their academic schedules.
What are the top three reasons you like your blended classes?” They rattled off several reasons. These included liking how the course sites hosted their work and progress, allowing them to use fun technology tools, and giving them access to their courses anytime that worked for them.
students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion between learning modalities, at least one of which is online learning.
Lab Rotation – a Rotation-model implementation in which within a given course or subject (e.g., math), students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion among locations on the brick-and-mortar campus.
Individual Rotation – a Rotation-model implementation in which within a given course or subject (e.g., math), students rotate on an individually customized
Some 'definitions' of types of blended learning. The station model is typically seen at the elementary level, but high school teachers could really use this model effectively with their students as well.
except for test days, a different student is responsible for the daily scribe post.
Over the length of the course these scribe posts grow into the textbook for the course, collectively authored by the students; one student at a time, one day at a time.
This makes me wonder....it would be awesome if...for freshman year long courses...grades were reported out but not captured on transcripts until the end of the school year. In December Ss would receive "grades", for Ss below a C conversations would be had between all stakeholders to create a success plan for the S. But there is really incentive for all Ss...come May if the end grade is substantially higher than the December grade then it would trump that grade (so there would still be Sem1 and Sem2 transcript grades ). Those not improving would simply have whatever grade documented for December along with the grade earned for semester 2.
I agree and am impressed with the elements that we are currently doing in our school. I think we just need to tighten it up. PG 4 notes another element which we need to improve and that is the ideas of the summer bridge program, the career exploratory courses and the extension of the teacher/advisory programming. What if, we sent freshmen mentors to the ML to meet their students along with link leaders?
I find this article interesting considering this is what we are seeing with the online students in Clay-Platte. Online classes have to find a way to connect with students via technology to give the 'face-to-face' feeling. Many of our students indicated that they haven't seen their teacher and don't know who they are.
I do think we need to consider the classes that see all ie: freshman, sophomore...and find ways to scaffold helping students learn how to 'survive' in the digital world to keep up their organization, etc.
less than 10 percent of college students were taking at least one class online in 2003, nearly one-third of college students are now taking at least one of their courses online