Blended Course Design

Paradigm Shift

"The shift that is moving institutions away from the requirements of the Industrial Age toward the requirements of the Information Age"

Rotation

"a blended learning model in which students rotate on a fixed schedule between learning online in a one-to-one, self-paced environment and sitting in a classroom with a traditional face-to-face teacher. It is the model most in between the traditional face-to-face classroom and online learning because it involves a split between the two and, in some cases, between remote and onsite."

Face to Face Driver

"a blended learning model in which the physical teacher deploys online learning on a case-by-case basis to supplement or remediate, often in the back of the classroom or in a technology lab."

Disruptive Innovation

"fundamentally transform a sector by replacing expensive, complicated, and inaccessible products or services with much less expensive, simpler, and more convenient alternatives; helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology"

Proposed Adaptive Learning Cycle

1) User attempts to learn concept via selected learning model 2) User takes diagnostic test 3) Concept deficiencies and best learning model are identified 4) Remedial course is dynamically created with appropriate learning model

Online Lab

a blended learning model in which it characterizes programs that rely on an online platform to deliver the entire course but in a brick-and-mortar lab environment. Usually these programs provide online teachers. Paraprofessionals supervise, but offer little content expertise.

Flex

a blended learning model in which it features an online platform that delivers most of the curricula. Teachers provide on-site support on a flexible and adaptive as-needed basis through in-person tutoring sessions and small group sessions. Many dropout-recovery and credit-recovery blended programs fit into this model.

Self- Blend

a blended learning model which encompasses any time students choose to take one or more courses online to supplement their traditional school's catalog. The online learning is always remote, which distinguishes it from the online-lab model, but the traditional learning is in a brick-and-mortar school.

Online Driver

a blended learning that involves an online platform and teacher that deliver all curricula. Students work remotely for the most part. Face-to-face check-ins are sometimes optional and other times required. Some of these programs offer brick-andmortar components as well, such as extracurricular activities.

Deductive Learning Strategy

a more traditional form of teaching; typically provide information (lecture), share specific examples of theconcept or skill being taught, then, allow students to practice the skill being taught. This is a more teacher-centered model of teaching that is rule driven.

Adaptive Learning

an educational method which uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of educational material according to students' learning needs, as indicated by their responses to questions and tasks.

Discovery Learning Strategy

instructional approach that guides and motivates learners to explore information and concepts, embrace new knowledge, and apply new behaviors back on the job. Using this methodology, organizations can educate their employees quickly and with higher levels of retention than traditional training methods.

Incidental Learning Strategy

some form of indirect / additional / unplanned learning within an informal or formal learning situation.

Inductive Learning Strategy

strategy for helping students deepen their understanding of content and develop their inference and evidence-gathering skills. students examine, group, and label specific "bits" of information to find patterns.

Apprenticeship Learning Strategy

the process of learning through physical integration into the practices associated with the subject, such as workplace training. By developing similar performance to other practitioners, an apprentice will come to understand the tacit (informally taught) duties of the position.