At the Sloan C Blended Learning Conference
Nancy Millichap gives some insight into what was on the agenda at the recent Sloan Blended Learning Conference and Workshop in Milwaukee which brought together faculty members, researchers, administrators, and instructional designers. They were meeting to examine the ways in which they can integrate face-to-face and online learning environments to improve outcomes for today’s students.
The days included a plenary panel Research in Blended Learning: Where are we now? and what are the future challenges and needs? that had contributors to a book that will see publication later this year, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives Volume 2. Another session on Scholarship Trends in Blended Learning led to four "virtues" of blended learning.
It requires instructors to think really carefully about what only they can do and what can be done better by someone else.
It shifts attention to students and learning, away from the traditional focus on faculty and teaching.
It enables institutions to get meaningful, detailed data on student progress.
It provides the first serious and wide-scale opportunity for faculty to collaborate inter-institutionally on course development.
The days included a plenary panel Research in Blended Learning: Where are we now? and what are the future challenges and needs? that had contributors to a book that will see publication later this year, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives Volume 2. Another session on Scholarship Trends in Blended Learning led to four "virtues" of blended learning.
It requires instructors to think really carefully about what only they can do and what can be done better by someone else.
It shifts attention to students and learning, away from the traditional focus on faculty and teaching.
It enables institutions to get meaningful, detailed data on student progress.
It provides the first serious and wide-scale opportunity for faculty to collaborate inter-institutionally on course development.
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