Perfecting the Blend: Designing Blended Course Interactions
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Enhance Student Interactions in Blended Courses
It takes one set of skills to engage students in a traditional classroom setting. It takes another set to make the most of an online learning environment.
How can one faculty member juggle a blended course that combines elements of both types of instruction?
Ideally, a blended course will merge the strengths of each teaching-learning format seamlessly, creating multiple opportunities for student involvement and interaction in different settings. Achieving this ideal, however, requires conscious and deliberate planning.
It also requires updated knowledge of the best blended course design strategies and interaction principles.
Discover the newest techniques for improving blended courses in Perfecting the Blend: Designing Blended Course Interactions with Dr. Kelvin Thompson and Dr. Susan Wegmann.
Blended course designs have the potential to yield tremendous interactive benefits ... but only if you know how to design and implement them effectively. Make the most of your blended courses by ordering this professional development seminar today.
This seminar covers everything you need to know in order to maximize student engagement in a blended class, including:
Designing interactions that support seamlessly integrated blended courses
Marshaling students' reasons for contributing to course interactions
Increasing student engagement in the classroom and online
Understanding why you must address interaction during the course design phase
Fostering student-student and teacher-student interaction
Implementing optimal blended design strategies
Overcoming design and implementation challenges
Creating ideal interaction opportunities in both teaching formats
Collecting in-depth data for evaluation purposes
Perfecting the Blend: Designing Blended Course Interactions draws upon and introduces the SCOPe process for evaluating blended learning engagement and includes sample course design documents to support improvements at your school.
Perfecting the Blend: Designing Blended Course Interactions is appropriate for all levels of faculty members, regardless of their current amount of experience with blended learning. This would include:
Teaching assistants
Instructors
Lecturers
Adjuncts
Tenure-track and tenured professors
It is also recommended for:
Faculty developers
Instructional/educational technologists
Instructional designers
Included with your registration:
Recorded seminar CD with handouts
Complete transcript
Supplemental materials
Facilitator's guide
Critical reflection worksheet
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Kelvin Thompson, Ed.D.
Kelvin Thompson, Ed.D., serves as an assistant director for the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning and a graduate faculty scholar within UCF’s College of Education. He has collaborated on the design of hundreds of online and blended courses over the past fourteen years. Kelvin developed the BlendKit Course open courseware as part of UCF’s Blended Learning Toolkit.
Student engagement is critical to the learning process. The combination of online and face-to-face teaching environments creates a unique set of challenges. In order to maximize the full potential of a blended course, a professor needs to understand how to harness the possibilities of both formats. This seminar will teach you techniques for improving student interaction in blended courses.
Susan Wegmann, Ph.D., is the Director of Programs and Research for the Morgridge International Reading Center, as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. In 2009 she was awarded the Sloan Consortium's Excellence in Online Teaching Award. She was also awarded the UCF College of Education's Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award as well as UCF's Online Teaching Ambassador recognition.
Student engagement is critical to the learning process. The combination of online and face-to-face teaching environments creates a unique set of challenges. In order to maximize the full potential of a blended course, a professor needs to understand how to harness the possibilities of both formats. This seminar will teach you techniques for improving student interaction in blended courses.
