Background
On this page...
... you'll find some resources to get you started thinking about blended learning. What is it? What does it look like?
Books
Blended Learning and Online Tutoring
This book adopts a pragmatic and commonsense approach to blended learning, by situating the use of online media within a well-grounded teaching and learning strategy.
Effective Blended Learning Practices
This book provides insight into the practice of blended learning in higher education.
How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course
This practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses focuses on outcomes-based practice
Blended Learning : across the disciplines, across the academy
The underlying theme of this book is encouraging students to develop the skills to continue learning throughout their lives.
The Handbook of Blended Learning
This comprehensive resource highlights the most recent practices and trends in blended learning from a global perspective and provides targeted information for specific blended learning situations.
The Online Learning Idea Book
This book focuses first on methods of involving individual students, collaborative teams, or interactive discussions through asynchronous and self-directed activities, synchronous activities, and self-checking and other assessment methods. Then turns to curriculum designers, showing ways to enhance the development process, improve navigation and usability, and work toward creative design and use of media.
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Resources
- The Definition Of Blended LearningA post from the Teach Thought site on the definition of blended learning. It suggests that the success of blended learning is on the resulting evaluation of how best to reach and teach students, not on the role of technology alone.
- Blended Learning ToolkitA free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.
- Self-determined blended learning: a case study of blended learning designThis paper proposes, describes and evaluates a pedagogical approach to blended learning focused on learners and learning. First, we interrogate the literature related to blended learning to show how various constructions of blended learning may be driven by teacher-centric or learner-centric conceptions. Next, planning a learner-centric blended learning design for a core unit in a first year higher education course is described. The design is then evaluated using a mixed methodology in which the students' voices illuminate their experiences of blended learning unit design with regards to engagement, learning and self-determination.Teacher Tips with Aaron QuigleyWeekly series exploring innovations in educational technology, time-saving techniques, teaching best practices and highlighting emerging technology in the field.