Blended Learning Course Design

At their best, blended learning courses combine the advantages of face-to-face instruction with effective online modules to increase learning while reducing instructor workload.

At its worst, blended learning can become an administrative nightmare for professors and a frustrating disappointment to students in the classes.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Avoid common mistakes in designing and implementing a blended learning course by following the proven advice of experienced instructors.

In Magna White Paper, you learn 10 key strategies for improving blended learning course design from Ike Shibley, Ph.D., a leader in the field.

An Associate Professor of Chemistry at Penn State, Shibley was instrumental in introducing successful blended learning courses to the science curriculum, with improved outcomes and greater satisfaction for both students and faculty.

Blended Learning Course Design includes actionable information on:

• How to structure blended courses that meet less often than traditional ones—with better or comparable results
• The steps involved in redesigning an existing face-to-face course as a blended one
• The best way to use learning objectives in a blended course
• Which portions of a course to move online
• Strategies for communicating with students outside of class
• Ways to maximize out-of-class time
• The types of work students can handle outside of class
• Effective ways to hold students accountable for completing online assignments
• Ways to adapt class time and make it more valuable

This 22-page Magna White Paper is based on one of our most popular Magna Online Seminars ever, originally delivered by  Ike Shibley, Ph.D., on March 11, 2009.

Shibley became involved in blended learning as part of a project to redesign the curriculum at Penn State and discovered that students in his blended learning courses achieved an average GPA almost 25 percent higher than students receiving traditional instruction. He is a well-known advocate of blended learning approaches to college-level instruction.

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