Blended Learning

2013 eFellows Program Call for Participation Workshop

Posted by on March 19, 2012

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Course Design with EdTech on February 29

Posted by on February 23, 2012

EdTech is hosting an eLearning Community of Practice event on Wednesday, February 29, in Norwood Hall Room 208, from 2 – 3:30 p.m. The focus of this event is effective course design. What components in a course create a quality online space for your students? Instructional designers will show you some easy ways to implement […]

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Bb World 2011 — Pedagogy and Online Learning: Training Users in Backwards Design

Posted by on July 22, 2011

Presenters: John Doherty — Instructional Designer, Northern Arizona UniversityWally Nolan — Lead Instructional Designer, Northern Arizona University Both presenters started out by stating that online learning should be all about the pedagogy and not about the technology. In other words, instructors should not become so enamored of one particular technology that they forget to apply […]

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Using Mediated Reflective Writing in Online and Blended Courses

Posted by on March 30, 2011

Presenters from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Matt Russell russelmr@uwm.eduDylan Barth djbarth@uwm.eduGerald Bergstrom bergtrom@uwm.edu [ SLOAN-C Proceedings Web Site ] Reflective writing is ideally suited for experiential learning. Dylan’s part focused on using reflective writing in a blended English composition course. His course is a blended course with 24 students. It is focused on research writing and […]

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Blended General Education Mathematics – Been There, Done That!

Posted by on March 30, 2011

Presenter: Jan Costenbader (Depaul University) jcostenb@depaul.edu[ SLOAN-C Proceedings Web Site ] He is a senior instructional technology consultant at DePaul University. His objectives for the presentation are to share the design process for moving to a blended course, how lessons learned during the process were applied to a rework. Math 101, the course Jan teaches, […]

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Understanding What Students are Doing: An Internal Combustion Engine of eLearning

Posted by on March 30, 2011

Presenter:John Kaliski (Minnesota State University) John’s purpose of his research is to capture some student behavior from their Learning Management System (LMS). How often and for how long students log into the system When students access reading material and notes When students start online assignments How long students take to complete assignments How productive discussion […]

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Preparing the Teachers of Tomorrow Today in Large Blended Classes

Posted by on March 30, 2011

Presenter: George Morrison (University of North Texas) george.morrison@unt.edu [ SLOAN-C Proceedings Web Site ] George defines “large” as 100+, which also fits the definition of large classes at S&T. Most classes fall well below this definition. We engaged with each other in an experiential learning exercise–first we described a picture of an orange, then he […]

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ADDIE plus Bloom’s Taxonomy Equals Optimal Blended Teaching and Learning

Posted by on March 30, 2011

Presenter: Celina Byers (University of Minnesota)  cbyers@umn.edu [ SLOAN-C Proceedings Web Site ] Celina’s goal was to take Master-level students from “declarative knowledge” to a “procedural level” to full fluency of the information. ADDIE is a very common course development method. We introduce it and use it in our own CyberEd course. ADDIE – Analysis, […]

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EdTech Travels to SLOAN-C Conference on March 28-29, 2001

Posted by on March 28, 2011

The Educational Technology group (at least the “Ed” side consisting of Meg Brady, Angie Hammons, Julie Phelps, Barb Wilkins, and Malcolm Hays) are traveling to the 8th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference in Chicago on March 28-29, 2001. This conference is primarily about blended learning strategies. Over the next few days, we hope to bring you […]

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Teaching and Learning Technology Conference 2011 – REGISTRATION OPEN!

Posted by on January 26, 2011

Registration for the Teaching and Learning Technology Conference 2011 on March 10 and 11, 2011 is now OPEN! Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Mazur — Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Web-based registration is now available at: http://edtech.mst.edu/events/tltconference2011/registration.html If you have already registered with […]

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