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This FREE Mobile Learning Quick Start Guide is meant for training companies unsure about when to use, how to design & implement Mobile Learning in a beneficial way
Lectures, demonstrations, reading and practice worksheets are those components of traditional school that many students (and teachers) do not find as memorable or engaging. Sadly for some, many aspects of a traditional classroom can now be accomplished automatically using online technology. That means changes to instruction need to be made, less classrooms get wholly supplanted by computers.
How is hybrid learning different from blended learning?
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 learning is a powerful change in pedagogy from the chalk and talk method of 'lesson delivery'. Teachers can embrace their inner 'Guide on the Side' instead of the 'Sage on the Stage' and foster inquiry, collaboration, and support the 21st century learner.... Inspired by Lee LeFever (@leelefever) when he did a talk at RCAC in London Ontario"
Via Henrietta Siemens, Kim Flintoff
Let's assume that all learning - as we go forward - will use a MIX of on-demand and live content, context and collaboration. Some will be highly designed and some will be real-time. Some will be digitally connected and some will be face to face. At Learning 2012, we will chatting about the changing language of learning. From career paths, to college programs to labeling our learning offerings - it is time to shift the use of the "e" as electronic and instead see the embedded "e" in Learning to mean: Everywhere. Everyone. Evolving. Effective. Efficient. Everytime. Embedded. Engaging.
Via Kim Flintoff
Great resources for creating a hybrid class (Nice Livebinder on hybrid/blended learning resources: http://t.co/4dajRkHe #edtech #blended...)...
"A critical mind usually avoids binaries. We know that more than two political parties can exist, that gender is constructed, and that emphatic absolutes kill conversation. We live in a world of negotiated hybridity on a variety of levels. Everything about the word calls up a vision of science and the future: hybrid cars, hybrid humans, hybrid flower seeds. Rarely do we consider the applications of a term that floats around us and permeates our daily experiences. Hybridity, as this journal proclaims, is foundational to teaching and learning. What does this kind of hybridity imply?"
"Teaching is a practice. Good teaching is an engaged, reflective, and generous practice. Pedagogy is not just talking and thinking about teaching. Pedagogy is the place where philosophy and practice meet (aka “praxis”). It’s vibrant and embodied, meditative and productive. Good pedagogy takes both teaching and learning as its subjects."
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Kathy Davis shares several strategies to use hybrid education (or blended learning: combining traditional class activities with online learning features).
" A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach. In the past, digital materials have served in a supplementary role, helping to support face to face instruction.For example, a blended approach to a traditional, face to face course might mean that the class meets once per week instead of the usual three-session format. Learning activities that otherwise would have taken place during classroom time can be moved online...." Source Weblearning
Five key challenges institutions run into with blended learning programs and sage advice on how to work around these issues.
Project Description This project sought to identify effective strategies that teachers can use within a blended learning environment to enhance learner engagement and achievement. A mixed-method approach was used to collect and analyse data. In total, 541 participants from two North Island universities participated in this project. Ten effective engagement strategies were identified, covering engagement at the beginning of a course, during a course, and re-engaging learners.From the project findings, five conclusions were reached: The quality of learning depends on the depth of student engagement in the learning process.Click on the image to download the summary report (4.67mb PDF)The systematic application of all 10 engagement strategies identified in this study give teachers the best chance of achieving high levels of student engagement.The skills and effort that teachers apply to create learning experiences is the single most important determinant of the quality of the learning environment.Teachers are time-poor and lack adequate technical support and training in pedagogical principles.Blended learning can make a difference. This project was launched at ASCILITE 2012
Via Kim Flintoff
Blended learning or hybrid courses that combine face-to-face and online learning are increasingly offered at colleges and universities across the United States, with growing evidence that they can enhance student learning.
The annual 2011 Student Feedback Loop surveyed 2,835 students from 11 different institutions across the United States and Australia to gauge their views on blended learning and lecture capture technology. The resulting data was incorporated into a new white paper, Blended Learning Technology: Connecting with the Online-All-the-Time Student. This paper offers valuable insights into students' preferences for delivery of instruction, learning styles and study resources.
Via Kim Flintoff
Our team comes to work every day to answer one question: “if you had to rebuild education from the ground up for the 21st century, what would it look like?”
Technology in learning is many things. • It is the tools we use to deliver instruction in classrooms and in virtual space. • It is the tools learners use to extend, enhance, and transform their learning. • It is the tools we use to increase our productivity as learners, instructors, and administrators. • It is the processes we engage in to construct learning environments. • It is the design of learning activities and programs. • It is the process by which we learn. • It is curricula – a body of knowledge and skills – that studies how things are done. Technology is a complex term, made more so by the many interpretations we all have of it. Our application of technologies in learning has been in many ways unfocused. The following principles are intended to provide a (far from definitive!) guide for reflecting on the purpose and use of technology in learning.
Via Kim Flintoff
Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal of 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.
"My hypothesis is that all learning is necessarily hybrid. In classroom-based pedagogy, it is important to engage the digital selves of our students. And, in online pedagogy, it is equally important to engage their physical selves. With digital pedagogy and online education, our challenge is not to merely replace (or offer substitutes for) face-to-face instruction, but to find new and innovative ways to engage students in the practice of learning" (Stommel, 9 March, 2012).
"Blended Learning is not so much an innovation as it is a natural by-product of the digital domain creeping into physical boundaries. As digital and social media become more and more prevalent in the life of learners, it was only a matter of time before learning became "blended" by necessity."
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