Blended Learning
- 1. Blended Learning What it is What it isn’t
- 2. Blended… A face-to-face class with an online component? OR An online class with a face-to-face component?
- 3. BL – What it is Source: Picciano, A.G. (2005)
- 4. BL – What it is • Traditional “seat-time” is replaced with online activities • Activities are planned in a pedagogically sound manner • Instructors choose which methodology best suits the activity “The best of both worlds”
- 5. BL – What it isn’t • An opportunity for students to do less work for their 3 or 4 credits • An opportunity for students to be uninvolved in their learning • An enormous increase in work for faculty • A class in which only the tech-savvy can teach
- 6. Advantages of BL • Student access to higher education • INCREASED ENROLLMENT and RETENTION • Opportunity to be creative, for both faculty and students
- 7. Why Blend? • 1. Improved Pedagogy • Interactive vs. Transmissive enviroments • Authenticity integration into work • 2. Increased Access/ Flexibility • Reduced seat time courses-UCF M courses • 3. Increased Cost Effectiveness • Corporate: ROI-IBM 47:1, Avaya, Microsoft • Higher Ed: PEW Grants
- 8. Blended Learning Advantages • 1. Increased Learning (better papers, higher scores) • 2. More effective pedagogy and interaction • 3. Course access at one’s convenience and flexible completion (e.g. multiple ways to meet course objectives) • 4. Reduction in physical class or space needs, commuting, parking • 5. Increased opportunities for human interaction, communication, & contact among students • 6. Introverts participate more
- 9. Learning Community •There is a preference for creating an online learning community in order to increase student learning and retention in the program. Such a community might be in a single class or across a series of classes.
- 10. Implication and Challenges for Blended Learning in Higher Education • Faculty and students are more mobile • Student expectations rise. • Greater self-determined learning. • More corporate university partnerships. • Courses increasingly modular. • Less predefined schedules. • Scheduling much more complex.
Editor's Notes
- #2: The blended learning community has had a lengthy discussion on what to call this new modality: blended hybrid mixed-mode Most prefer to call it *blended* - because it integrates so well, that it becomes a new type of delivery system. Not online, not face-to-face.
- #4: All manner of combinations can be called “blended”, but BL is different from “web-enhanced” in which no seat-time is replaced.