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UoH Blended
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Blended Course Design Workshop
University of Houston
College of Business
August 17-18
Patricia McGee (CV)
Workshop PPT
Workshop PPT as PDF
Day 1, Wednesday August 17 (all day)
- 9:00 – 9:45 AM: Welcome and The Basics of Blended: What it is and is not. There are many definitions of blended, and much variety of how a blended course design can work. We will look at models of blended used by institutions and the workforce to make decisions about how courses can shift to a blended design.
- Activity: Discussion about basic models and which are a good fit.
- Resources:
- 9:45 – 10:45 AM: What Goes Where and When: Determining Classroom, Blend, and Online Components. The most challenging part of shifting to a blended format is deciding what happens in the classroom, online, and between these environments. Examples of how courses can be organized will be provided as we discuss the three A’s: activities, assignments, and assessment.
- Activity: Using your course syllabus, we’ll decide which of the 3 A’s can be successfully implemented in which context.
- Activity: We’ll review Blackboard™ and determine options for setting up course materials and activities.
- Resources:
- 11:00 AM – Noon: What we Know that Works: Effective Practices. There is much research and institutional principles that contribute to our understanding about what makes a blended course successful. We will discuss these effective practices for the first day, assessment, communication, interaction, feedback, etc. and make decisions about how they relate to specific courses.
- Activity: Considering your syllabus, you will determine how the three A’s may be modified to work best in a blended format.
- 1:00 – 1:45 PM: What Blended Courses Look Like: Looking at Real Courses. Blended courses are varied in how they work and what students and instructors do. A variety of course review rubrics exist that cannot only help us review an existing course but also help design a course. This session provides an opportunity to examine successful blended courses using design rubrics.
- Activity: Using a course review rubric, you will review various blended courses to see how they address different blended elements.
- Resources:
- 2:00 – 3:00 PM: Interactivity through Technology: Engaging the Learner with Relevance. Research indicates that students in blended courses are much more active and interactive. We will talk about accountability, engagement, forms of interaction, and tools that support relevant interaction.
- Activity: Using the course syllabus, we will come up with strategies for making the learner responsible, where and how interaction occurs, and what forms of technology are appropriate for your course.
- Resources:
- 3:00-4:00 PM: Implementing and Evaluating the Course. Blended courses may be new to the instructor and to the learner and therefore ‘feel’ and operate differently. This session will address student readiness, the biorhythms of a blended course, and formative/summative/confirmative evaluation.
Day 2, Thursday, August 18 (half day)
- 9:00 AM-10:00: Technology Tour. Blackboard is just one technology that can support a blended course; Web 2.0, mobile technologies, and classroom technologies will be explored in this hands-on session in depth as we consider what various tools have to offer. Examples and illustrations will provide guidance in decision-making.
- 10:00 AM- Noon: One-on-One Consultation
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