Organizing and Transforming Your Blended Learning Course
This comprehensive module combines the essential elements of organizing and transforming your blended learning course. By the end of this module, you’ll possess the tools to create a well-organized, engaging learning experience and the insights to transform traditional courses into dynamic blended learning experiences.
How to create or transform a Blended Learning course?
1. Set the foundation of the course structure
Download "Learning Outcomes"
This material will help you to have a clear understanding of the principles of blended learning and how they relate to a variety of technology-related situations. You will be able to critically assess and evaluate existing blended learning case studies; and select and evaluate the use of different technological solutions for a specific blended context.
Download "Blended Learning Methodology"
This set of slides contains an overview of the Blended Learning Methodology that will help the trainers plan their course and set the goals and objectives.
Download "Storyboards"
This material will give you an understanding of Storyboards and how they can be useful to plan a lecture since they are visual organizers.
Transformation Plan
You can always go back to your transformation plan to follow each step you are taking; visit the notes you took and use it to better define your course objectives.
2. Sequencing Learning Activities
Instruct trainers on the logical progression of content delivery. To do that, discuss strategies for sequencing learning activities and showcase case studies illustrating effective content progression.
Download “How I write lectures”
With this material you will dive into different formats and methods to effectively write your lectures.
Download "Piloting Activities"
This set of slides brings a summary of 6 different kinds of activities to implement in a course.
Download "Web Quests"
This material explains the use of Web Quest as a tool for Blended Learning. It is an online activity that involves the students visiting several websites preselected by the teacher to learn about a particular topic.
3. Utilizing Technology Effectively
Download "Blended Technologies"
Check this material out to be updated about several different technologies you can use in your course.
Download "Creative Commons"
In this material we explain what Creative Commons are and how to use it.
Download "Copyright"
This set of slides brings the definition of copyright and different examples to illustrate it.
Download "Websearch"
Check these slides out to learn about different search engines that can help you to make your course more accessible and increase the privacy of the user.
4. Transforming Your Blended Learning
Download “Designing your workshop”
This enriching material will give you the ability to plan, design and structure your own course. Learn different types of Blended Learning, how to teach and assess in a blended environment.
Download "Instructional Design"
This material will help you understand what Instructional Design is and will bring its different approaches.
Download "Evaluation"
Learn different techniques to evaluate and analyze your course with this material.
Activity
Feel free to develop a comprehensive plan for organizing, transforming, and monitoring your Blended Learning course if you want! Include learning outcomes, a structured course plan, strategies for ongoing improvement and everything you could learn until here. As soon as you start your course, seek feedback from participants for continuous refinement.