E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup)

"A comprehensive new study led by George Siemens, executive director of the UT Arlington LINK Lab, examines the role that technology plays in higher education and offers steps that universities of tomorrow can take to support student learning ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

Knowing What NOT to do can be as Valuable as Knowing What TO do Do you want to really get the most out of using technology in your classroom and courses? Or

Via Charlie Chiarelli, Bobbi Dunham

Rob Schwartz, a teacher at a blended learning magnet school, shares how design missions validate "the individual over the content" and give students the freedom to fail.

Via Grant Montgomery, Jose Erigleidson

"As I take a few minutes to reflect on the tools I have been using this year, a few keep coming up as my absolute favorites. Students are asking to see the teacher dashboard, to see their …"

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Via Leona Ungerer

Blended and Flipped Classrooms can give students more control over their learning path. Added to that, the teachers get more insight into the learning of the class and can intervene as required. Technology plays an important role in blending the classrooms. User-friendly technology ensures that the student has more control over the time, place and pace …

Via Marta Torán

5 lessons for all education learned from MOOCs.

Via Fiona Harvey

"A new analysis of four blended-format courses taught last fall offers practical guidance for faculty members interested in fresh pedagogical approaches ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

Technology-Enhanced Professional Development combines elements of effective staff development, change theory, innovation adoption, and blended learning.

Via Marta Torán, José Cuerva

Blended learning combines the best of online learning with traditional teaching. The educational trend is showing results – higher test scores, happier teachers and students – as more schools adopt and adapt it.

Via Alfredo Calderón, Ramon Aragon

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Being read to, besides being redundant, is demeaning and frustrating. I need a professor not as a middle-man for information, but as a motivating and encouraging figurehead of the classroom....

Via EDTECH@UTRGV

Blended Learning is a hot topic of discussion in the L&D community. The definitions and perspectives on this theme are wide ranging and vary depending on who you are speaking to. Implementing a...

Via Marta Torán

El blended learning o aprendizaje mixto, mezclado o semipresencial es aquel que combina la enseñanza en entornos físicos y virtuales. Además, en palabras de Heinze y Procter en 2004  “El Blended Learning es el aprendizaje facilitado a través de la combinación eficiente de diferentes métodos de impartición, modelos de enseñanza y estilos de aprendizaje, y basado en una comunicación transparente de todas las áreas implicadas en el curso”.

Via Gumersindo Fernández

When a computer runs a classroom, is it more efficient? Do kids learn more? A middle school in New York is finding out.

Via Marta Torán

Ever since the invention of the printed word, academics have been arguing about the proper place of technology in teaching.

On one side are those who I’ll call the traditionalists who insist on the primacy of face-to-face and barely tolerate online delivery. For the traditionalists, students need, as one colleague put it, to be exposed to the “rhetorical performance of the lecture”. For them, students learn a great deal from simply watching academics nut through problems.

While they may decry passive lectures, their own teaching, they insist, is a highly interactive affair. They adopt a Socratic approach in which they engage students in a rich dialogue. While technologies such as the web have a place in teaching, it is a secondary one, limited for broadcasting announcements and pasting up subject learning guides.

On the other side, are the technologists. The technologists would happily do away with lectures — or give face-to-face teaching the flick entirely. New technologies provide tools for reaching into students’ lives. Students can learn when and where they want. And now that students are getting online delivery at high school, it’s time that universities caught up.

Via Miloš Bajčetić, Alfredo Calderón

""Blended learning incorporates a mix of traditional face-to-face learning with digital learning techniques. One increasingly popular specialized version of blended learning, the “Flipped Classroom,” has been garnering a lot of attention lately as it sees increasing rates of adoption. In fact, the widely respected 2014 NMC Horizon Report lists the Flipped Classroom as a technology that is positioned for widespread adoption this year and next ..."

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Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Leona Ungerer

With social media, virtual classrooms, mobile learning, BYOD, and more, we are being asked to create blended learning that takes advantage of all the future has to offer. But which of these are a fad, and which are here for the long-run? And what are the drivers that make them happen?

First we need to remember that the cultural paradigm for training is changing, and this change is affecting what we do more than the changing technology is. Smaller companies are reaching larger audiences, and larger companies are delivering content on a global scale. Our workforce is more portable than ever before - wanting skills and knowledge that support not only today's job, but their potential next career. And, for the first time ever, four generations are working together - bringing unique skills, backgrounds, and interpersonal challenges.

With all of that in mind, it's important that we consider five trends impacting the delivery and consumption of training that are here to stay:

Via Edumorfosis

"Blended learning is constantly evolving. And most of the innovations and refinements have been developed to support student-centered learning. That means leveraging technology into learning activities, in and out of the classroom.

There is mounting evidence that complementing or replacing lectures with student-centric, technology-enabled active learning strategies and learning guidance—rather than memorization and repetition—improves learning, supports knowledge retention, and raises achievement. These new student-centered blended learning methods inspire engagement, and are a way to connect with every student right where they are while supporting progress toward grade level standards."

Via Beth Dichter