Blended Learning – Curriculum Development

– 6 Steps, Flipped and Finding Resources

Dr Barbara NewlandAssistant Head, Centre for Learning and Teaching

Nick FeatherLearning Technologies Adviser, IS

OverviewWhat is Blended Learning (BL)?Student expectationsBL policies and support at Brighton6 steps to BLFlippedFinding resourcesExamples of BL Ideas for BL

Blended Learning Definition

Face to Face

eLearning Blended

Communications – Ofcom 2015

Tablet ownership - over half of households (54%) had a tablet computer in early 2015, increasing from 44% in Q1 2014.

“smartphone users now spend nearly two hours (114 minutes) using the internet on their mobile phone, nearly twice as much time as the average adult spends going online via a PC or laptop (69 minutes).”

Smartphones in two-thirds of households (66%), on a par with laptops (65%).

Waking up

Three in ten adults (29%) said they checked their phones within five minutes of waking up, increasing to about half of 18-24 year olds (48%).

More than seven in ten adult internet users (72%) have a social media profile

Almost a fifth of adults say they are ‘hooked’ on social media

Learning environments in which students say they learn most

Areas of emerging technology

Horizon Report on technologies that will have significant impact on HETime to adoption: One Year or Less

Bring Your Own Device Flipped Classroom

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years Makerspaces Wearable Technology

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years Adaptive Learning Technologies The Internet of Things

The University recommends the appropriate use of BL as part of the student learning experience within modules and courses. It is expected that BL will be an integral part of student learning.

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/clt/resources/blended-learning/bl-at-brighton/

BL policies at Brighton

Advise Learning and Teaching Committee on institutional policy developments in relation to Blended Learning including Electronic Management of Assessment and the use of course development and review mechanisms for e-learning

Advise on Blended Learning requirements e.g. estate developments and make recommendations to LTC on systems for possible funding

Blended Learning Sub-Committee

CLT http://www.brighton.ac.uk/clt/resources/blended-le

arning/bl-at-brighton/

Learning Technology Advisorshttp://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearning/

Where can you get support?

1. Identify the learning objectives

2. Look at the curriculum to decide what is best face-to-face (F2F) and what is best as eLearning

3. Consider the integration and relationship between the F2F and eLearning

4. Develop the most appropriate eLearning activities to achieve the learning objectives

5. Decide how will you assess these activities6. Choose the most appropriate technology

6 Steps to Blended Learning

Integration How are f2f and online integrated? Will students be able to see clearly how they connect?

Relationship Is f2f dependent on the online or vice versa? Will students be able to succeed if they complete one and not

the otherAccountability

How will you ensure students engage with and complete the online part of the module?

When will work be due? (EDUCAUSE, Diaz and Strickland, 2009)

Relationship of F2F and online

“Blended teaching is not just a matter of transferring a portion of your current course to the Web. Instead it involves developing challenging and engaging learning activities” (Garrison, Vaughan, 2008)

Integrate within the curriculum – replace and not just supplement

Consider the balance throughout the module and across the whole student experience – from induction through whole degree programme

Designing BL

Finding ResourcesMIT - http://ocw.mit.edu/ Open University - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ YouTubeText books

Resources Passive eg static web page Interactive eg simulation Read the notes before the lecture? Read a journal article? Find information on …

Communication and collaboration Email, announcements Discussions – eg asynchronous forum or synchronous online chat, lync Collaborative and co-production through eg blogs and wikis

Assessment Formative, summative Self, peer, tutor Quizzes, contributions to discussion forum, blogs etc, essays

Blended Learning examples

10 minutes to discuss and develop one idea for BL or one activity you already use

Developing a BL curriculum

6 steps

Consider BL throughout the module and course from the student perspective

Summary

Dahlstrom, E, Bichsel, J ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2014. Research report. Louisville,CO: ECAR, October 2014. Available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar

Garrison D.R., Vaughan N.D., 2008, Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles and Guidelines, John Wiley and Sons

JISC, 2012, Developing Digital Literacies Programme: Summary of project baseline reports http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/developingdigitalliteraciesprog.aspx

Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., and Freeman, A. (2015). NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

Littlejohn A., Pegler C., 2007, Preparing for Blended E-Learning, Routledge Ofcom Communications Report, 2015,

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr15/

Salmon, G., 2013, E-tivities: the Key to Online Learning, 2nd edition, Kogan Page

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