Cases on Online and Blended Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices

Cases on Online and Blended Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 348

ISBN13: 9781605668802|ISBN10: 160566880X|EISBN13: 9781605668819|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924270

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-880-2

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Although online education is becoming an important long-term strategy for higher learning instructors, blended learning through a balanced mix of traditional face-to-face instructional activities with appropriately designed online learning experiences is expected to become an even more significant growth area in the future.

Cases on Online and Blended Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices provides real-life examples and experiences of those involved in developing and implementing the merge of traditional education curriculum and online instruction. A significant resource for academicians, this advanced publication provides a wide range of the most current designs, methodologies, tools, and applications in blended course teaching.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Implementing Blended Learning Technologies

Programs/Environments

Chapter 1

The Nature of Complex Blends: Transformative Problem-Based Learning and Technology in Irish Higher Education (pages 1-22)

Roisin Donnelly

This chapter discusses the complexities of blending technologies and problem-based learning (PBL) group interaction within the context of academic development in higher education. For both designers and tutors, it is important to...

Chapter 2

Experiences and Perceptions of Learner Engagement in Blended Learning Environments: The Case of an Australian University (pages 23-43)

Linda De George-Walker, Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Raj Gururajan, P. A. Danaher

One of the most significant challenges in learning and teaching is to maximize successful and sustainable learner engagement. The growing literature about blended learning environments and technologies provides plenty of scope for an...

Chapter 3

Instructional Leadership and Blended Learning: Confronting the Knowledge Gap in Practice (pages 44-62)

Martin R. Reardon

Dewey’s concept of experience as an active engagement with a process of action, feedback, and reflection permeates the setting of the case reported in this chapter. The case involves an initiative to engage a group of experienced...

Chapter 4

Blended Learning in a Creative Writing Program: Lessons Learned from a Two-Year Pilot Study (pages 63-75)

Chris Morgan, Janie Conway-Herron

This case study reports on the results of a two-year pilot study in blended learning in an undergraduate creative writing program at Southern Cross University in Australia. It documents the development and implementation of a blended...

Chapter 5

Blended Learning for Adaptation to Needs (pages 76-89)

Joan E. Aitken

Blended learning is an instructional method that opens the channels of communication in the learning process so that there are increased communication strategies. This chapter discusses two different approaches to using blended...

Courses

Chapter 6

Virtual Reality or Virtually Real: Blended Teaching and Learning in a Master's Level Research Methods Class (pages 91-111)

John Lidstone, Paul Shield

This paper examines the enabling effect of using blended learning and synchronous internet mediated communication technologies to improve learning and develop a Sense of Community (SOC) in a group of post graduate students consisting...

Chapter 7

Teaching Online: What Does Blended Learning Require? (pages 112-131)

P. Toyoko Kang

This chapter provides an argument endorsing blended learning and teaching for foreign language (FL)/second language (L2) courses, in lieu of total online learning and teaching or total face-to-face learning and teaching (FFLT). Two...

Chapter 8

The Perfect Blend?: Online Blended Learning from a Linguistic Perspective (pages 132-144)

Roberto Di Scala

This chapter tackles the implementation of the way online courses of English language are structured within the on-line degree courses of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Moving from a double theoretical framework...

Chapter 9

Reflections: Two Years after Implementing a Blended Educational Research Course (pages 145-165)

Yukiko Inoue

This chapter discusses the case of a pilot course implementing blended learning at an American Pacific island university. This case provides a detailed overview of how the instructor applied blending learning design to an...

Integrating Online Learning Technologies

Programs/Environments

Chapter 10

A Case of Using Wikis to Foster Collaborative Learning: Pedagogical Potential and Recommendations (pages 167-182)

Hong Lin, Kathleen D Kelsey

In recent years, Wikis, an open Web-based editing tool, have increasingly been used for collaborative writing projects in classrooms. Hailed as a collaborative learning and writing tool that is more powerful than blogs and e-mail...

Chapter 11

Virtual Organizing Professional Learning Communities through a Servant-Leader Model of Appreciative Coaching (pages 183-206)

Kam Hou Vat

This case investigates a set of empowerment concerns in the context of transforming classes of student and teacher learners (considered as department-wide learning units in higher education) into professional learning communities...

Courses

Chapter 12

Bothering with Technology: Building Community in an Honors Seminar (pages 208-226)

John J. Doherty

This chapter discusses the role that technology can play in a first-year Honors seminar. For the purposes of the chapter, blended learning is defined as re-tasking face-to-face time or out of class time to build community and meet...

Chapter 13

Online Materials for Teaching Japanese (pages 227-248)

Kai Masumi

This chapter discusses how to adapt online learning to teach Japanese language courses. The author overviews the current language education situation in Japan, introducing the existing online Japanese courses and examine their...

Chapter 14

Composition Goes Online: How a Small Pacific Island is Blogging into the Future (pages 249-282)

Michelle Bednarzyk, Merissa Brown

In the spring of 2007, English faculty members at the University of Guam began researching the need for online education options that could be offered by the University. With the support of other English faculty, Merissa Brown...

Chapter 15

Integrating Classroom and Online Instruction in an Introductory American Government Course (pages 283-295)

Richard Engstrom

This case outlines the author’s experience teaching a large Introduction to American Government course using a hybrid classroom/online approach. The benefit of adding a set of online modules to the course was that students were able...

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