MOOC: Blended Learning Essentials- How is blended learning changing teaching and learning
Monday, 2 Nov 2015, 18:17
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Please use the comments to reflect on the responses highlighted in the
video. And what are your thoughts? How is digital technology changing
teaching and learning for you and your learners? And maybe more
importantly, how would you like it to change in the future?
There were several ways highlighted in the case studies:
Fosters independent learning
Student-centred learning
Widens range of resources available
Uses devices that students already use
Anytime-anywhere learning
Makes learning more interesting
I would also add that it can contribute to more authentic learning. Students can work with a wider community of practice within their subject areas. They can link with practitioners to see how what they are learning makes sense in the real world. Abstract ideas can then be grounded and made more accessible. Also, technology enables new and novel ways of teaching and learning that can't be achieved face-to-face in the classroom. For example, engaging with practitioners through twitter, or collaborative work with peers through shared documents. Collaborative and curating tools available online allow students to engage with higher thinking skills much more easily.
Anytime and anywhere learning also changes the culture of learning, making it something more than what happens within the physical and temporal confines of the classroom.
In the future I would like to see much more opportunity for all students to experience a blended learning approach from their early education onwards. It is still patchy, in spite of the rhetoric, in schools, colleges and universities. Adopting a blended learning strategy is a collective action problem as it requires everyone to be involved in order to change the culture of teaching and learning away from the acquisition model towards the participation model.
MOOC: Blended Learning Essentials- How is blended learning changing teaching and learning
Please use the comments to reflect on the responses highlighted in the video. And what are your thoughts? How is digital technology changing teaching and learning for you and your learners? And maybe more importantly, how would you like it to change in the future?
There were several ways highlighted in the case studies:
I would also add that it can contribute to more authentic learning. Students can work with a wider community of practice within their subject areas. They can link with practitioners to see how what they are learning makes sense in the real world. Abstract ideas can then be grounded and made more accessible. Also, technology enables new and novel ways of teaching and learning that can't be achieved face-to-face in the classroom. For example, engaging with practitioners through twitter, or collaborative work with peers through shared documents. Collaborative and curating tools available online allow students to engage with higher thinking skills much more easily.
Anytime and anywhere learning also changes the culture of learning, making it something more than what happens within the physical and temporal confines of the classroom.
In the future I would like to see much more opportunity for all students to experience a blended learning approach from their early education onwards. It is still patchy, in spite of the rhetoric, in schools, colleges and universities. Adopting a blended learning strategy is a collective action problem as it requires everyone to be involved in order to change the culture of teaching and learning away from the acquisition model towards the participation model.