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Before the Session
Read/View
- Blended Learning Open Textbook (est 20-30 minutes)
- Review a sample blended course description (you may reflect on the course description you reviewed for session one: What Will My Blend Be?) (est. 10 minutes)
- A case example linked from Case Studies of Blended Learning Design
- Blended Learning Case Study 1
- Blended Learning Case Study 2
If you are pressed for time, focus on the following:
- Considering Techno Expression During Course Design (est. 7 minutes)
- Online Asynchronous Expression in Blended Learning
- Face-to-Face Synchronous Expression in Blended Learning
- Review a sample blended course description (you may reflect on the course description you reviewed for session one: What Will My Blend Be?) (est. 10 minutes)
- A case example linked from Case Studies of Blended Learning Design
- Blended Learning Case Study 1
- Blended Learning Case Study 2
Prepare (Download & Complete):
- Blended Learning Mix Map
- You may already have your Mix Map prepared since our last session. If not, it is advised that you review some of the material from the “pre-session” readings and activities from What will my blend be? Particularly the Mix Map exemplars.
- Fillable Blended Interaction Matrix
- Either print this off or bring a device to access it for the session Blended Interactions
During the Session
NOTE: Please bring a laptop or other digital device which can connect to the internet. Please also ensure you have access to a copy of your course outline or syllabus.
The slides for this workshop are available here.
During this session we will discuss some of the following questions for consideration:
- Is there value in student-to-student and student-to-instructor interaction in all courses regardless of discipline?
- What role does interaction play in courses in which the emphasis is on declarative knowledge (e.g., introductory “survey” courses at the lower-division undergraduate level) or, similarly, in courses that cultivate procedural knowledge (e.g., technical courses requiring the working of problem sets)?
- As you consider designing a blended learning course, what kinds of interactions can you envision occurring face-to-face, and how might you use the online environment for interactions? What opportunities are there for you to explore different instructional strategies in the blended course than you have in the past?
- What factors might limit the feasibility of robust interaction face-to-face or online?
ATTRIBUTIONS
This workshop outline is a remix containing materials licensed under a variety of open licenses including:
- derivative work of content from The BlendKit Reader, edited by Dr. Kelvin Thompson, available under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
- original content written by JR Dingwall, from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, at the University of Alberta
