Why did you choose to blend your course? This was a cross-listed course that had two separate syllabi and two separate assessment strategies. Consequently, Patti determined that creating a blended ...

Monday > Independent reading, research, review of online lecture, writing, and group work. Wednesday > Independent reading, research, review of online lecture, writing, and group work. Course work: ...

Designing a blended course offers a lot of opportunity for pedagogical choice and experimentation. However, simply adding online work to in-person classes or vice versa without considering how the ...

Blended learning is not a new instructional approach, but it became more mainstream during and after the COVID pandemic, when educators and students elected to keep parts of entirely-online learning ...

Discussion forums are widely used in online courses (Horstmanshof & Brownie, 2013; Kipling et al., 2023), and will likely continue to be a commonly used tool in online education. If used well, they ...

The blended course has a lot of pedagogical flexibility, which can make it difficult to decide what to do when, how, where and for how long. Consider these questions as helpful starting points: How do ...

As we stand at the dawn of a new era in education, it is time to reevaluate the effectiveness of the current smart classroom technology. The traditional smart classroom, once hailed as a harbinger of ...

Blended learning is gaining considerable popularity in American classrooms, but the question remains: Is there strong evidence that the strategy helps K-12 students? “The answer right now is still no, ...

These are examples of learning activities used by SHED faculty. Each activity outline is followed by some teaching tips that the instructor has found helpful while using these activities and teaching ...