This document discusses blended learning and provides definitions and considerations for designing meaningful learning experiences in a digital society. It defines blended learning as not just adding technology to a class, but using technology to make students active learners who receive frequent feedback and develop critical thinking and content creation skills while connecting classroom work to the real world. The document advises thinking big but starting small, and reassures the reader that they do not have to go through the process alone.

1. BLENDED LEARNING @CI
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Teaching and Learning Innovations @CI
TLInnovations.cikeys.com

2. ONLINE & BLENDED
LEARNING @CI
connected &
humanized

3. WHAT IS LEARNING?

4. “
…[L]earning is about going beyond the
knowledge given to you in a class or in a book….
Learning is personal. It happens one on one, it
happens in small groups, it happens alone. Sure,
a conference, a speaker, a lecture is motivating—
but the real learning happens after. It's what you
do with it, how you integrate it, how you talk to
your family, friends, and classmates about it.
That's what learning is.
-Dennis Littky and Samantha Grabel

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6. “Barboach Evolves to Whiscash”
by Jack Brock, January, 2008

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12. Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
IRRELEVANCE

13. HOW MIGHT WE DESIGN
MEANINGFUL LEARNING
EXPERIENCES IN A DIGITAL
SOCIETY?

14. DEEP & MEANINGFUL
LEARNING
Asynchronous online learning supports
flexibility, reflection, interpersonal and
teamwork skill development, motivation,
and collaborative learning environments,
resulting in deep and meaningful learning.
(Garrison & Anderson, 2003; Hiltz, 1997; Marjanovic, 1999;
Rimmershaw, 1999; Williams, 2002)

15. face
to
face
online
WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING?

16. WHAT DOES NOT WORK?
the simple addition of technology into a class
-blended learning-

17. WHAT DOES WORK?
•Make students active learners
•Provide frequent, personalized feedback
•Foster critical analysis skills
•Turn students into content creators
•Connect classroom activities to the world outside the classroom
Using technology to:
-blended learning-

18. MAKE STUFF.
Teach students how to learn
in a mobile, digital world.
Pacansky-Brock, M. (2015).Photo by Emilio Garcia, CC-BY-NC

19. THINK BIG.
START SMALL.
You are not alone.
Photo by Paul VanDerWerf CC-BY Pacansky-Brock, M. (2015).

20. ONLINE & BLENDED
LEARNING @CI
connected &
humanized

21. YOUR PATHWAY @CI
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