What Is Blended Learning?
Blended learning, which combines face-to-face classroom instruction with supervised online activities, is one of the hottest topics in higher education today.
Find out in this Magna 20 Minute Mentor program how you can fuse the best of traditional techniques and cutting-edge online technology.
This session is conducted by experienced and engaging professors, Ike Shibley, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks, and Timothy Wilson. Ph.D., assistant professor at The University of Western Ontario. Join them as they explore the basics of blended course design.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use different delivery formats to enhance student learning
- Separate online and face-to-face learning goals, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning
- Employ online activities to improve face-to-face learning
- Create complementary face-to-face and online activities
Drawing on real-world experience and sound pedagogical principles, this professional development program will show you:
- How “flipping the classroom” for blended learning can give you more class time for interaction and higher-order learning activities
- How using online technology can help students prepare for class and demonstrate their growing mastery of course content
- How to structure class time to maximize student engagement
- How to address institutional issues with blended learning
Blended learning is here to stay.
Learn how to take advantage of online technology to better your students’ learning experience and improve your instruction.
Order the Magna 20 Minute Mentor program today.
Make this program available for ongoing training
Order the Campus Access License and load the CD content onto your institution’s internal web site for unlimited, convenient, on-demand access for all members of your campus community.
The product qualifies for use with Magna Credits. Learn how you can save on this and future purchases by using Magna Credits.

Meet Your Mentor:
![]() | Ike Shibley, Ph.D. |
![]() | Timothy Wilson, Ph.D. |
- PDF Transcript
- Supplemental Materials
- Critical Reflection Worksheet
- PowerPoint Handouts







