The handbook of blended learning pdf

Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Introduction to blended learning. Editorial: Blended Learning. Their book contains about … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. The … Expand. Highly Influenced. Higher education has been actively encouraged to find more effective and flexible delivery models to provide all students with access to quality learning experiences yet also meet institutional … Expand. View 2 excerpts, cites background. Preface Many scholars view blended learning as one of the emerging trends in post-secondary education.

Many scholars view blended learning as one of the emerging trends in post-secondary education Although the concept " blended learning " has been used in corporate and organizational learning training … Expand.

Education and Information Technologies. This thing called blended learning - a definition and planning approach. The definitions and understandings of the concept are many Driscoll, ; … Expand. Higher Education of India encourages blended learning in the universities by introducing a wide range of online courses.

Presently, India is good at integrating Information and Communication … Expand. Create a fine blend: An examination of institutional transition to blended learning. The handbook of blended learning: Global perspectives, local designs Ebru Albayrak.

A short summary of this paper. The handbook of blended learning: Global perspectives, local designs. Bonk ed. Graham ed. Pfeiffer Pages: March It aims to raise awareness of adopting BL from institutional perspectives of many chapter authors from Australia, Korea, Malaysia, the UK, Canada and South Africa who are distinguished people mostly in instructional technology era.

With this book, I guess the editors aim at both showing the big picture at macro level and present micro level examples which provide details of blended learning applications among their strengths and weaknesses. As introduced in the book, one of the editors Curtis J. Bonk, a former corporate controller and CPA, is now professor of educational psychology as well as instructional systems technology at Indiana University; the other editor Charles R.

Graham is an assistant professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University with a focus on technology- mediated teaching and learning. The book is of eight parts including 39 chapters besides two forewords. The book starts with discussing the importance of blended learning BL. The authors implied that in , ASTD American Society for Training and Development identified blended learning as one of the top ten trends to emerge in the knowledge industry.

Also, the prediction of increase in the use of BL for delivering training at companies and higher education institutes is common worldwide. In the first forewords section written by Jay Cross who is introduced as a thought leader in learning technology, performance improvement and organizational culture and coined the terms e-learning and work flow learning. He reflected the corporate training aspects of the book and implied that he could not imagine unblended learning since it is foolish to think that delegating the entire training role to the computer can work.

He reported that BL is not something like 40 percent online, 60 percent classroom or face to face instruction. BL models provide essential methodological scaffolding needed to effectively combine face-to-face instruction and arrays of content objects..

The ingredients of the blend must accommodate learning needs and instructional design should be considered accordingly. BL is claimed to be a stepping-stone for the future which reminds us to look at learning challenges from many directions. The second forewords section is written by Micheal G. Moore, introduces as a piooner in distance education and founder and editor of the American Journal of Distance Education.

The editors mention that this section is written from a higher education perspective. Micheal G. Moore states that BL is a long-neglected idea and the advantages of combining classroom and home or work place are being discovered by educators and policy makers recently. He presents existing blended learning models using by many sectors and organizations and discusses the importance and usefulness of BL for now and in the future.

Elliott Masie also provides reasons for creating blended learning and claims that it is an imperative which reflects the blended nature of our world and learning process. On the other hand, Jennifer Hofmann mentions the chronology of learning delivery technologies before identifying the need for a blended solution. Ellen D. She discusses the importance of interaction comprehensively and reviewed various models of instructional interaction.

In Part Two: Corporate blended learning models and perspectives, the authors provide blended learning models and frameworks of six major corporations which are IBM, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Avaya, Cisco, and Oracle and discusses many issues regarding various BL experiences.