Marc Alter's List: Blended Learning

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This course has fourteen chapters and is designed as a self-paced, interactive workshop. Building from the skills learned in the basic level course, this course will deepen you abilities to develop and maintain an online course in Itslearning. You will also learn how to use "power user" features and tools within the portal.

A more in-depth examination of blended learning. This White paper includes case studies of specific models of blended learning in specific school settings.

Introduces and compares four primary models of blended learning.

An analysis of research literature from 1996 – July 2008 revealed that blended learning is more effective than face-to-face instruction. The authors of the study speculate that the advantages of blended learning may be related to materials and the opportunity for additional time and for collaboration.

Blended learning is addressed throughout the report, but you may interested in the findings presented in the “Blended Learning” section on p. 9. The report refers to an article written by Liz Pape that notes that “blended learning extends teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls, developing critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration and global awareness.