Blended Learning

ONL201 Topic 4 - PBL12

Perspectives on Collaborative Blended Learning

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Students

Talking Points

Video link

Article link

Online Disinhibition Effect

Benefits of blended learning

Opportunities

Teacher support

Institutional

Teacher

How to design for a Blended

Collaborative Environment

The 5 Stage Model

Arrange learning objectives in a JIT sequence

Identify the learning objectives

Configure tasks for learner performance

Develop strategies for facilitating learning activities

Designate contexts and source materials

Reconfigure learning activites

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Opportunities for Students

Accessibility

Customized learning

Learning based on your threshold concepts

Get access to wide variety of material

Constructive feedback

Flexible

By immediate and constant feedback,,more scope for learning

Learn at your own pace, timing and effort. Inclusive too

Collaborative

Creativity

Gain knowlede and learn from peers by working collaboratively

Increase usage of tools, methods and models foster creativity

student Voice

Co-creation

Confidence

Students get cconfidence when power relations shift to a more collaborative approachcess

Students in an active role in their own and others’ learning experiences

Capacity

Partnership

Students build capacity by researching and contributing meaningfully to designing learning and teaching

Students take authentic responsibility for the educational process

Shift in Role

Say in Assessment

Student role shifts from Passive recipients or consumers to being active agents,

Students design assessment and Grade their own and others’ work

Opportunities for Teachers

Time management

Pedagogical principles

Possibility to adapt and adopt various pedagogical theories and principles

More time to discuss, reflect, learn and assessment

Effective feedback

Flexible

Capability to implement various of feedback methods and better evaluation

Availability of various tools, methods and learning theories

Collaborative

Creativity

Gain knowlede and learn from peers by working collaboratively using co-production

Increase usage of tools, methods and models foster creativity

DEVELOP as a Teacher

The teacher as an interface

Pedagogical principles

The teacher is the interface between students and the institution, and between the course and the curriculum

Possibility to adapt and adopt various pedagogical theories and principles

Teacher support and the roles of the teacher

Research and tools

A wealth of research on learning theory and on the outcomes of collaborative blended learning

Role model, advocate, respecter, legitimizer, leader

Reflection

Life-long learning

Reflective learning to benefit teachers as well as students

Concepts & Choices

Technology mix

Learning outcomes

Live virtual classroom, self-paced instruction, collaborative learning, streaming video, audio, and text

Choose pedagogical approaches constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism

Low impact Blend

Instructional Form

Adding on-line activities to an fexisting f2f course

f2f with Blend of . video, web-based training, film

High Impact Blend

Medium Impact Blend

Building the blended course from scratch.

Replacing f2f activities in an existing course with online activities

Opportunities for Institutions

Time management

Saves cost

Save lot of building LMS and reuse for lifelong

Build once and reuse for several iterations

Effective feedback

Accessiibility

Improved tracking and reporting

Access to diverse, geographical , language and inclusive

Classroom utilization

Reputation

Less usage of learning class and effective usage of classroom for discussion and learning

Increase institional stature by adaptng blended learning