Taking elearning forward at Keele

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Taking e-learning forward at Keele

• Outline
• Blended learning
• Example
• Criteria
• Tactics

• Stephen Bostock
• Head of the Learning Development Unit

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Blended learning

• combining established ways of learning and
  teaching and the new opportunities offered by
  technology in order to improve students' learning
  and increase flexibility in how, when and where
  they study Blended Learning Unit (CETL),
  University of Hertfordshire, http//perseus.herts.
  ac.uk/, accessed 10-4-2007
• For a campus university how do we add
  technology to maximum advantage?

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A simplistic example
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Criteria for blendedness

• Efficiency and effectiveness for learning, of
  course
• Flexibility and personalization of learning
  experience
• A balanced experience for students and teachers,
  according to their expectations and abilities
• How to combine onsite and online?
• Just pick and mix?
• Or a recipe?
• Complementary, mutually supportive course
  components? (technology and traditional)

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Four tactics for adding online components

• Having identified the possible online and onsite
  course elements, why select one or other or both?
• Address a deficit technology provides support
  for a missing or non-accessible learning
  activity. E.g. online discussion in distance
  learning
• Substitution of online for onsite substitute a
  traditional element with a technology-based one.
  E.g. online tutorials replace onsite tutorials
• Enrichment by duplication technology duplicates
  existing TLAs, allowing personalized experiences.
  E.g. lecture handouts on web, audio podcasts of
  notes, feedback from a quiz
• Support for F2F engagement Use online activity
  to improve engagement and learning

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D. Bligh, Whats the use of lectures, 1998
Whats the point of discussion, 2000
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Supporting F2F engagement