Blended Learning Fellowship Program

1. Blended Learning Fellowship Program

2. Blended Learning • Some information on the web or via other media • Must have some face to face

3. Background • Sponsored by Educational Innovation Core Team • Bring together a group of faculty and instructional staff • Review the literature around blended learning • Identify models that can be leveraged successfully on the UW-Madison campus

4. Completion of the Program • Developed their own definitions and framework of blended learning • Applied this framework to both their own courses and the UW-Madison campus environment • Developed an increased interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning through reading and discussion of blended learning literature • Be campus leaders in the blended learning movement by communicating the affordances and benefits of blended learning • Be prepared to present at formal and informal engagements with their colleagues to discuss blended learning. • Participants will help shape how future fellowship programs should be structured.

5. Deliverables • Participants will work together to produce a document that represents the models of blended learning they feel will work on the UW-Madison campus. • Definition and Pros and Cons • Toolkit • They will share their work in various ways (i.e., departmental meetings, blended learning roadshows, brown bag lunch sessions, campus conferences, and/or future blended learning fellowship program offerings).

6. Course Structure • Meet 13 weeks for 90 minutes over lunch • Readings • Online Discussion • Presentation and Discussion at weekly meeting • Optional week long hands on session in end of May to early June

7. Syllabus • Campus Perspective on Blended Learning • Models of Blended Learning • Building Community of Inquiry • Design of Blended Learning • Evaluation and Assessment of Blended Learning Design • Instructor Roles in Blended Learning • Designing Blended Learning Activities • Developing Campus Leaders for Blended Learning • Working sessions

8. Facilitators Ron Cramer - Senior Learning Technology Consultant Timmo Dugdale - Senior Learning Technology Consultant Chris Lupton - Engage Program Manager Joshua Morrill — Evaluator Chad Shorter - Learning Technology Consultant

9. Participants • School of Education- Rich Halverson • School of Veterinary Medicine - Robb Hardie • Division of Continuing Studies - AphraMednick • College of Engineering - Greg Moses • School of Law - Adam Stevenson • College of Letters and Science - Nadine Connor  • School of Pharmacy - Mike Pitterle • School of Medicine and Public Health - Casey Reiser • School of Nursing - Elizabeth Rice • School of Human Ecology - Linda Roberts • Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies - Rob Beattie • Division of International Studies - Steven Smith

10. Guests Chris Olsen, Interim Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Jeff Russell , Dean of Continuing Studies Linda Jorn, Director of Academic Technology Chuck Dzuiban, Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida

11. Definition (Work in Progress) • At UW-Madison, blended learning courses are instructor-designed and supervised environments that use face-to-face and technology-mediated channels to enhance interactive, engaging learning experiences and to improve learning outcomes.