UIW-Blended

University of the Incarnate Word

Blended Course Design Basics

September 30, 2011

Patricia McGee

 

Agenda, Links, and Documents

 

•  Introduction: Defining the blend: What blended is and is not
•  Best Practices and Examples of Blended Design
• GCC Course Rubric (.doc)
• Course Examples (web)
• Design Process
• Blended Alignment Worksheet (.docx)
• Instructional Frameworks
• Blackboard Course Sites
• Introducing Content Online
• Academic Earth -http://academicearth.org/
• Annenberg Learner (videos) - http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=0&grade=5&imageField2.x=10&imageField2.y=15 
• Connexions - http://cnx.org/
• Einstein - http://www.einztein.com/
• iTunes U - http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
• Learning Objects. net http://www.learning-objects.net/
• Khan Academy -  http://www.khanacademy.org/
• MERLOT -http://www.merlot.org
• Open University OpenLearning - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
• Other Repositories, including discipline specific - http://archive.nmc.org/projects/lo/repositories.shtml 
• WISC Online http://www.wisc-online.com/
• Universal Design for Learning 
• Watch Mit - http://watch.mit.edu/
• Technology best Fit
• eLearningtools (web)

 

General Resources

• Blended Learning Toolkit (UCF- web)