blended learning

This chart provides the three stages of Personalized Learning Environments describing Stage One (Teacher-centered), Stage Two (Teacher and Learners as co-designers) and Stage Three (Learner-centered).

Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal on teaching and technology that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education.

Aaron Wolowiec (who’s recently launched EventGarde LLC, a brand new consulting firm for meetings and educational strategy) has an interesting post on adult learning principles and andragogy (which “places value on the process of learning. It uses approaches to learning that are problem-based and collaborative rather than didactic or rooted in lecture, and also emphasizes more equality between the instructor and the learner.”)

1. Adults are internally motivated and self-directed

2. Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences

3. Adults are goal oriented

4. Adults are relevancy oriented

5. Adults are practical

6. Adult learners like to be respected

Aaron poses the question, how can you incorporate these principles when planning education, when designing your meetings, when choosing (or training) your speakers?

"Join your colleagues at the 9th Annual Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, Perfecting the Blend, as we problem-solve, exchange ideas, and explore effective strategies about blended learning. The conference provides the opportunity for instructors and faculty members, instructional designers, student advisors, administrative leaders, and researchers to share best practices, strategic considerations, models of practice, and challenges revealed through our experiences in practice and research."

This conference occurred on April 23 and 24, 2012. This page contains a listing of all the presentations, with links to them. Nearly all of the presentations have slide decks available to the public and many provide additional materials as well. No videos are available.

Although the focus of the conference was higher education, many of the presentations and presenters focused on K-12 also.

If you are interested in blended learning, these is sure to be something of interest for you here. -JL

Online learning has grown consistently over the last decade (see Sloan-C image below). Judging from current hype and interest, blended/online learning is about to explode.

Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal on teaching and technology that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education.

Consider four core values for the classroom in general and the online classroom: show up, be curious, collaborate, and contribute. The online classroom is more student-directed in the sense that students are more "on their own" than they are in a traditional classroom.

Cette agence, prend des mesures performants pendant le processus de formation pour assurer le plaisir d'apprendre: E-learning, Blended learning, Face à face pédagogique, serious game, business game et plateformes ...

Wikispaces:

The flipped classroom is an exciting new instructional approach. As it is relatively new, much of the information about it only is available in the popular press. This page lists relevant information to flipped classrooms.