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Blended by Design: Designing and Developing a
Blended Course
Veronica Diaz, PhD, [email protected]
Jennifer Strickland, PhD, [email protected]
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Program Overview
Format
Hands-on, curriculum (re)design work
Team/individual work
Binder resources
http://ablendedmaricopa.pbwiki.com/
Evaluations
Topics
Day 1: Blended learning overview and redesign
Day 2: Course redesign and engagement
Day 3: Assessment, student success and collaboration
Day 4: Academic integrity, copyright, and quality assurance
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Learning Objectives
To understand blended learning
To identify and connect with the blended learning community
To accumulate resources that can be used today and in the future
To learn to use tools to convert into or create a blended course
To design a module and to understand the steps in doing so
To be introduced to the process of integrating technology in a meaningful way that promotes student learning
To understand basic principles in creating a high quality blended learning experience
To understand the implications of teaching in a blended environment
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Who are we?
Facilitators
Participants Break into pairs What is your “signature”
teaching technique? Share
Day 1:An Overview of
Blended Learning and Redesign
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Face-to-FaceCourse
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Getting from A to B
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What is blended learning?
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The 10 Blended Questions
As a Guide Throughout
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Motivation…
A way to meet Net Gen student expectations Attractive alternative
to Face2Face instruction
A good match for the Net Gen’s visual, exploratory, participative learning preferences
Usually more work to design (at least at the beginning), but improved student engagement and achievement
The best of both worlds
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The Optimal Model
Teaching Opportunities
Allows for many diverse solutions to course problems
Enables the incorporation of new types of interactive and independent learning activities
Variety of online and in-class teaching strategies
Learn technologies while you learn your material
Student Engagement
Potential to increase and extend instructor-student and student-student connectivity
Discussions started in class may be continued online
Students who rarely take part in class discussions are more likely to participate online
Integration of out-of- and in-class activities allows more effective use of traditional class time
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Faculty report that students…
Learned more Wrote better papers Performed better on exams Produced higher quality
projects Were capable of more
meaningful discussions on course material
Were better able to master concepts and apply what they have learned
Developed higher-order skills of critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to apply theoretical models to real-world data
Source: University of Central Florida Data, 2007
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The Sloan Consortium
National data reports
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What can it look like?
The National Center for Academic Transformation http://www.thencat.org Replacement Model Summaries:
http://thencat.org/PCR/model_replace_all.htm
Syllabi review Anthropology Nursing Spanish Distance Learning
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Blended course examples
American National Government (UCF)
Introductory Astronomy (UCB)
Economic Statistics (UIUC)
General Chemistry (UI)
Intermediate Spanish Transition (UTK)
General Chemistry (UWM)
College Composition (Tallahassee CC)
Computer Literacy (U of Buffalo, SUNY)
English Composition (BYU)
General Psychology (CSU Pomona)
Computer Programming (Drexel U)
Elementary Statistics (Penn State U)
Introductory Spanish (Portland State U)
Elementary Algebra (Riverside CC)
Six Innovative Course Redesign Practices
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Activity: Reviewing Blended Courses
Individually
Browse as many blended course syllabi as possible
Review the NCAT redesign course examples
What did you observe to be different in the traditional course from the blended course
In your Teams
Identify and agree upon unique features and strategies of blended courses
Report out
Break
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Activity: Mapping Your Course, Part I
Handout: Mapping your Course
Map out your face-2-face course from the syllabus and/or other course documents
Identify the chunks in your course via the topics or learning objectives in your syllabus
Select one chunk to work with during the week
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What can be done in the F2F classroom?
Your Ideas Our Ideas
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What can be done in the online classroom?
Your Ideas Our Ideas
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What is the relationship between these two?
Your Ideas Our Ideas
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
Focus on learner
Focus on measure of learning
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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
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Learning Technology and Blended Learning,
Part I Teaching and Learning with Technology
http://ablendedmaricopa.pbwiki.com/Teaching-and-Learning-with-Technology-Summary
Blogs Wikis
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Learning Technology and Blended Learning
Blogs, Wikis, and Social Bookmarking
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Blogs
A weblog, which is usually referred to as a blog, is a type of website where entries are made (as in a journal or diary) and displayed in reverse chronological order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
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Faculty Use of Blogs
Distribute information
Share professional knowledge
Editorialize
Promote/critique events, resources, etc.
Planet Infinity...My K.H.M.S. Math Class - http://mykhmsmathclass.blogspot.com/
Internet and Society Blog - http://www.therockblog.com/
Other examples
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Stu
den
t Use
of B
logs
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What is a Wiki?
A wiki defines a wiki: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Wiki
Some examples: PB Wiki WetPaint Google
Using Wikis in Education http://www.wikiineduca
tion.com/display/ikiw/Home
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PB Wiki Resources
Tutorial on using PB Wiki in an online classroom: http://ia360939.us.archive.org/1/items/Pbwiki-EngageYourStudentsWithAnOnlineClassroom/2008-05-0617.05MeetNow.wmv
PB Wiki site for Blended workshop: http://ablendedmaricopa.pbwiki.com/
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Wetpaint Wikis
http://www.wetpaint.com/
What you get: http://www.wetpaint.com/page/Wetpaint-Features?zone=spotlight_2
Features and uses: http://www.wetpaint.com/page/Tell-Me-More?zone=spotlight_1
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Suggested Activity
Complete Part I of Mapping your Course for your entire course and select a “chunk” or module for use in the remainder of the learnshop
Take the Is Online Teaching Right For Me? survey at http://www.onlinelearning.net/InstructorCommunity/selfevaluation.html?s=526.00201492m.0928012120; please review areas for improvement and consider ways to further develop your skills