The Best of Both worlds
Faculty who begin by ‘flipping parts’ of their face-to-face course often go on to develop a fully blended course. Students like the flexibility of blended learning, and often say that they learn better by watching lectures online and doing practical activities in classroom. Campus consultants can help you to develop you own video lectures and align in-class and online components for a “best of both worlds” course experience.
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This Blended Learning website from the Gies eLearning Office offers the following tips on getting started:
The first step to create or re-design your course into a blended format involves thinking about the goals and objectives of your course, the expected outcomes, your teaching style and the way you believe your class will better combine the strengths of the face-to-face and virtual environments.
Think about these items to give you the starting point to work on your course:
Goal/s: What is/are the overall goal/s of your course?
Performance Objectives: Performance objectives are measurable and align with the main goal/s of the course.What will your students achieve in the different modules?
Learning Outcomes: What are your students expected to know, understand and/or be able to do at the end of a module and of the course?
This video from CITL offers ten practical tips to consider as you transition from a face-to-face to a blended course format. Topics include mapping content, emphasizing engagement, and deciding what goes where. See why blended learning really is the best of both worlds.
More links on Blended Learning
Blended and Online Course Checklist
More Teaching & Learning Resources at CITL
Recording of 2016 College of Education presentation on MOOC/Hybrid/Blended modalities
Salman Khan Describes Future Classrooms with Blended Learning