This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.
you should set-up an introductory questionnaire or forum for them to introduce themselves and to ask any initial questions.
include a help forum
Topics on your LMS should include a course overview before students enter into the actual lessons and quizzes. The course overview can be as elaborate as you like, include videos, printable instructions, documents, and so forth.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of the transformative potential of blended learning in the context of the challenges facing higher education.
Blended, or hybrid, learning has caught the eye of many looking into the potential of online learning, especially after the release of a meta-analysis and review of online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education in May 2009. The authors found that "instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage" than either purely online or entirely face-to-face instruction.
When we conceive of learner as knowmad, the traditional roles assigned to teacher and student become less relevant, necessary, and linear. The knowmad is mobile and learns with anybody, anywhere, anytime. As such, the place we now know as school may be too small and perhaps unable to contain the range of learning engagements necessary for those with nomadic tendencies. Rather, think of the extended community--one that is physical, virtual, and blended-- as potential learning spaces that our knowmadic traveler composes, accesses, participates in, abandons, and changes.
It is a "best practice" for classroom teachers today to use a website as a learning portal for links and resources related to class studies. In this learning module we'll learn the difference between blogs and wikis, explore examples of K-12 exemplary classroom wikis and professional portfolios, as well as tools for creating educational wikis.
In-person mentoring combined with intelligent electronic tutoring - with its anywhere, anytime access - blends the best of traditional face-to-face education and artificial intelligence technology.