Blended Learning

1. Blended
Learning
What it is
What it isn’t

2. Blended…
A face-to-face class with an online component?
OR
An online class with a face-to-face component?

3. BL – What it is
Source: Picciano, A.G. (2005)

4. BL – What it is
• Traditional “seat-time” is replaced with online
activities
• Activities are planned in a pedagogically sound
manner
• Instructors choose which methodology best suits
the activity
“The best of both worlds”

5. BL – What it isn’t
• An opportunity for students to do less work for
their 3 or 4 credits
• An opportunity for students to be uninvolved in
their learning
• An enormous increase in work for faculty
• A class in which only the tech-savvy can teach

6. Advantages of BL
• Student access to higher education
• INCREASED ENROLLMENT and RETENTION
• Opportunity to be creative, for both faculty and
students

7. Why Blend?
• 1. Improved Pedagogy
• Interactive vs. Transmissive enviroments
• Authenticity integration into work
• 2. Increased Access/ Flexibility
• Reduced seat time courses-UCF M courses
• 3. Increased Cost Effectiveness
• Corporate: ROI-IBM 47:1, Avaya, Microsoft
• Higher Ed: PEW Grants

8. Blended Learning Advantages
• 1. Increased Learning (better papers, higher scores)
• 2. More effective pedagogy and interaction
• 3. Course access at one’s convenience and flexible
completion (e.g. multiple ways to meet course
objectives)
• 4. Reduction in physical class or space needs,
commuting, parking
• 5. Increased opportunities for human interaction,
communication, & contact among students
• 6. Introverts participate more

9. Learning Community
•There is a preference for creating
an online learning community in
order to increase student learning
and retention in the program. Such
a community might be in a single
class or across a series of classes.

10. Implication and Challenges for Blended
Learning in Higher Education
• Faculty and students are more mobile
• Student expectations rise.
• Greater self-determined learning.
• More corporate university partnerships.
• Courses increasingly modular.
• Less predefined schedules.
• Scheduling much more complex.