2. Outcomes
• Open Content: Be familiar with the types of (mainly) free
courses, content, and tools that are available online for
potential use
• Planning: Develop a greater awareness of the larger
issues around online content, specifically infrastructure (at
your institution) and copyright
• Instruction: Be familiar with a “learning stations”
participatory approach
3. 4 Learning Stations
Station 1: Online courses, content, courseware, and open
content directories
Station 2: Copyright and fair use
Station 3: Blended learning resources (info, tools, content)
Station 4: Blended learning readiness tool
Directions, Team roles, 30 minutes at each station
5. Let’s talk…station by station
• Station 1: What online courses/content did you find
particularly useful for your institution? Any challenges?
• Station 2: How confused are you about copyright and fair
use?
• Station 3: What did you learn about blended learning?
What tools appear promising/interesting?
• Station 4: What is one area your institution can work on
in terms of blended learning readiness?
6. 4 Hows of Blended Learning
• How does the instructor teach?
• How do students learn?
• How is technology used?
• How is learning organized?
7. Learning Stations: Basics
Why use?
How to set
up?
Other info?
• Manage scarcity (technology, Internet)
• Lots of content with multiple components
• Learning – simultaneous – not sequential
• Have approximately same number of students at each
station
• Each activity must be of equal length
• Each station needs directions and team roles
• Also called “learning centers”
• In Blended Learning, called “Station-Rotation Model”
• Often part of project-based and problem-based
learning
