Blended Learning

Perspectives on Collaborative Blended Learning

ONL201 Topic 4 - PBL12

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Opportunities

Benefits of blended learning

Teacher support

Online Disinhibition Effect

Students

Institutional

Teacher

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Article link

Video link

Talking Points

Reconfigure learning activites

Designate contexts and source materials

Develop strategies for facilitating learning activities

Configure tasks for learner performance

Arrange learning objectives in a JIT sequence

The 5 Stage Model

Identify the learning objectives

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Collaborative Environment

How to design for a Blended

Flexible

Gain knowlede and learn from peers by working collaboratively

Increase usage of tools, methods and models foster creativity

By immediate and constant feedback,,more scope for learning

Get access to wide variety of material

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

Learning based on your threshold concepts

Collaborative

Constructive feedback

Accessibility

Creativity

Customized learning

Opportunities for Students

Confidence

Partnership

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

Students design assessment and Grade their own and others’ work

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

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

Students take authentic responsibility for the educational process

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

Shift in Role

Capacity

Say in Assessment

Co-creation

student Voice

Flexible

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

Increase usage of tools, methods and models foster creativity

Capability to implement various of feedback methods and better evaluation

More time to discuss, reflect, learn and assessment

Availability of various tools, methods and learning theories

Possibility to adapt and adopt various pedagogical theories and principles

Collaborative

Effective feedback

Time management

Creativity

Pedagogical principles

Opportunities for Teachers

Research and tools

Life-long learning

Reflective learning to benefit teachers as well as students

Role model, advocate, respecter, legitimizer, leader

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

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

Possibility to adapt and adopt various pedagogical theories and principles

Teacher support and the roles of the teacher

The teacher as an interface

Reflection

Pedagogical principles

DEVELOP as a Teacher

Instructional Form

Building the blended course from scratch.

Replacing f2f activities in an existing course with online activities

Adding on-line activities to an fexisting f2f course

Choose pedagogical approaches constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism

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

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

High Impact Blend

Low impact Blend

Learning outcomes

Medium Impact Blend

Technology mix

Concepts & Choices

Accessiibility

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

Increase institional stature by adaptng blended learning

Improved tracking and reporting

Build once and reuse for several iterations

Access to diverse, geographical , language and inclusive

Save lot of building LMS and reuse for lifelong

Classroom utilization

Effective feedback

Time management

Reputation

Saves cost

Opportunities for Institutions