competitor company, lots of good ideas
an online
interactive program that pairs a high school student with a “personal success consultant,” a highly successful college student mentor, who can help the high school student navigate through the process of getting into college. The program also includes internship
opportunities and a curriculum to help students identify their interests and take actions toward finding and building a satisfying career.
This paper provides the rationale and framework for the blended advising model, a coherent
approach to fusing technology—particularly the ePortfolio—into advising. The proposed term,
“blended advising,” is based on blended learning theory and incorporates the deliberate use of the
strengths from both face-to-face and online environments, as well as synchronous and asynchronous
technologies and interactions. ePortfolios and an advising syllabus will be offered as core examples
of practical applications of the theoretical blended advising model in redefining and reengineering
the advising process. Current and emerging advisor support systems and delivery technologies are
also organized and applied to the proposed model to illustrate the possibilities, potential, and
processes that are created from a transformative blended advising redesign.