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Blended Learning. Kevin Hinde. About you!. What do you want to achieve from today’s session?. Aims and outcomes. Discuss issues associated with the current state of Blended Learning. You will be able to Define Blended learning. Recognise the context for Blended Learning.
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Blended Learning Kevin Hinde
About you! • What do you want to achieve from today’s session?
Aims and outcomes • Discuss issues associated with the current state of Blended Learning. • You will be able to • Define Blended learning. • Recognise the context for Blended Learning. • Reflect on your current blend of online and F2F learning and consider some solutions.
Context Definitions Where are we heading? The talk
What is Blended Learning? • Combining F2F and online delivery. • Web Enhanced • Web Focused • Web Driven
What is Blended Learning? • “ a combination of face-to-face and online media, with "seat time" significantly reduced.” • Richard Voos (2004 - http://www.aln.org/publications/view/v2n1/blended1.htm)
Context for blended learning solutions • Student Expectations • Technology and changes in learning styles. • The rising costs of HE – customers who also need to work. • Government Agenda • Widening Participation: increased diversity • 50% target • Increased numbers of overseas students. • E-Learning Strategy
Context for blended learning solutions • University Response • Meeting National and Regional Agendas • Declining Unit of Resource • Rising Numbers, Bigger class sizes – Productivity Improvements. • Alternative income streams e.g collaborative ventures, corporate learners, distance learners. • Investment in VLEs & staff training.
VLE usage among the Region’s Universities • Staff Usage • Durham – 67% • Newcastle – 45-50% • Teeside – 50% • Sunderland – 33% • Northumbria – 90%! • Substantial investments being made in VLE and integration. • Blended not Distance Learning
Is there any evidence that Blended Learning is better than F2F? • Impossible to get any realistic comparison. Studies use different variables. • T Russell (1999) – No significant difference problem between distance education and F2F going back to 1928. Not the technology but the method of instruction. Didn’t include internet based learning.
Is there any evidence that Blended Learning is better than F2F? • Lots of evidence that it improves the quality of the learning experience. (see http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk for some interesting discussion) • Twigg (2001) argues that we need to reverse the individualisation of faculty practice and the standardisation of the student learning experience. (http://www.centre.rpi.edu/PewSym/Mono4.html)
Questions • Which of the following best describes the programme you lead? • Web Enhanced (complimentary with F2F). • Web Focused (Some Substitutability with F2F). • Web Driven (Largely substitutable for F2F). • Some mixture of the above. • Web? What’s the web?
Pedagogical Enthusiasm for Online Learning Where would you place yourself on this grid? 1 4 7 8 2 5 3 6 9 Pedagogical Enthusiasm for F2F Learning
Pedagogical Enthusiasm for Online Learning Where would you place yourself on this grid? 1 4 7 8 2 5 3 6 9 ICT Knowledge ICT Knowledge ICT Knowledge ICT Knowledge
Pedagogical Enthusiasm for Online Learning Pedagogical Experimenter Constrained Optimist Pioneer Technical Experimenter Cautious Optimist Pragmatic Optimist Diverted Potential Unconvinced User Traditionalist ICT Knowledge
More Questions • I believe that the web will become even more important for learning over the next two years. • Strongly agree • Slightly Agree • Neither Agree or Disagree • Slightly Disagree • Strongly Disagree
More Questions • I believe F2F will have to change as a result of online learning provision in the near future. • Strongly agree • Slightly Agree • Neither Agree or Disagree • Slightly Disagree • Strongly Disagree
Work in groups of 3/4 and think about the following Can it be blended?
