Blending your education start session by Naomi Wahls

1. Blending
your education

2. Agenda
Icebreaker
COVID education
Blended Learning
Advantages of Blended Learning
Blended learning wave
The course: Blending your education

3. Icebreaker
Years experience:
under 2 (thumbs up)
under 5 (smiley face)
under 10 (heart)
over 10 (tada)
Go to food item on campus:
stir-fry with rice (thumbs up)
sandwich (smiley face)
tacos (heart)

4. COVID
Education
Photo by Ryan Snaadt on Unsplash

5. Contents
Photo by Bilal O. on Unsplash
Blended courses performed
much better during the
COVID situation

6. Blended Learning?!
CC-BY-NC Jodie Taylor

7. Definitions
Blended learning refers to learning as a result of a deliberate,
integrated combination of online and face-to-face learning
activities.
Blended teaching refers to designing and facilitating blended
learning activities.
Blended education is the formal context in which blended
teaching and learning take place, determined by policies and
conditions with regard to the organization and support of
blended teaching and learning.

8. Advantages of Blending
Power of both online and face-to-face
environments
More activating
More flexible
More feedback
More effective and efficient

9. Blended Learning Wave

10. Blended Learning Wave

11. Course Modules
Getting started
Is your course ready to be blended?
Plan your course design
Prepare and teach your course
Build your blended course
Teach your blended course
Evaluate and improve your course

12. Assignments
Personal Plan
Course Scan
Storyboard
Teaching Checklist
Create an Assignment Rubric
Communication Plan
Course Evaluation
Course Improvement Plan
Reflection

13. Naomi Wahls is a Learning Developer and Continuing
Professional Development Coordinator at the Delft University of
Technology and the Hub Coordinator on topics related to
society, peace, justice, gender, equity for UNESCO Open
Education for a Better World.
She has an MA in Spanish and an MA in Information and
Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado Denver.
Naomi has worked in online higher education since 2006,
including supervising the CU Online Helpdesk, supporting
faculty and students. She created a Game Based Learning
course design for the Advanced Academic Achievement 109
online course for the Community College of Denver in 2012 and
again in 2014 when she designed and taught the first online
Spanish course at the University of Colorado Denver.
Instructor

14. Learning
Activity
ROSE - Signifies a benefit.
What is working well related
to blended learning?
Common Definitions
How to participate
Blended learning:
learning as a result of a deliberate, integrated combination of online
and face‐to‐face learning activities.
Blended teaching:
the design and facilitation of blended learning
activities.
Blended education:
the formal context that is determined by policies and
conditions with regard to the organization and support of blended
learning courses and programs.
People: 2-10+
Length: 10-15 minutes
Steps:
Working from left to right:
identify Roses (benefits)
identify Thorns (challenges) and
identify Buds (type of learning activity you want to focus on)
Tips:
Consider when your students need to meet synchronously
versus asynchronously
1.
2.
3.
Gathering Feedback
R, T, B
S
supports the
development
of students
digital literacy
students
can work at
their own
pace
Expanded
opportunities
to learn
differrents ways
of teaching =
something for
every kind of
student
A new
approach and
way of working
to learn
What are the benefits
you anticipate?
Different forms
of education for
different aspects Flexibility,
creativity,
new
opportunities
Flexibility
Multiple
modes of
learning and
teaching
Students'
self-
organisation
make
students
do the
work
Students
can make
their own
schedule
time
the access to
tehcnology/
good working
wifi
People
struggling
with the
technology
orchestration
of phases,
resources,
activities
assesment
Focus area
THORN - Signifies a challenge.
What's not working well or are
you concerned about?
BUD - Signifies potential.
What's something that
interests you most that you
want to focus on in the future?
The art of actively choosing the flow of
learning from in person to online and back
again by balancing the needs of the
learning activities and social learning.
What are the challenges
that you see?
What type of learning
activity from this slide
interests you most?
Grab more sticky
notes from here
if you need them
Clustering
THEMES - Use these sticky
notes to identify patterns as you
group together similar stickies.
Increased
flexibility
for students.
Create more
opportunities
for active
learning
Potential better use of
student/teacher time -
making the best of each
space/context/scenario/time
for a learning activity
better use of
classroom time -
for practice
rather than
presentation
Equipment
ready for
distance
learning
lack of
students'
maturity
Flexibility,
creat
ivity, new
opportunities
(Audbjorg)
test
Peer
feedback
Discussion

16. What do you expect from this course?
Idea
Tools and experiences
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programmes/blended-education
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