Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Anthony G. Picciano; Charles D. Dziuban; Charles R. Graham

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Blended learning, which combines the strength of face-to-face and technology-enhanced learning, is increasingly being seen as one of the most important vehicles for education reform today. Blended learning allows both teacher and learner access to radically increased possibilities for understanding how we transmit and receive information, how we interact with others in educational settings, how we build knowledge, and how we assess what we have taught or learned. Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2 provides readers with the most current, in-depth collection of research perspectives on this vital subject, addressing institutional issues, design and adoption issues, and learning issues, as well as an informed meditation on future trends and research in the field. As governments, foundations, schools, and colleges move forward with plans and investments for vast increases in blended learning environments, a new examination of the existing research on the topic is essential reading for all those involved in this educational transformation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Blended Learning
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2
Section I Blended Learning Models and Scale
2 Developing Models and Theory for Blended Learning Research
3 Scaling Blended Learning Evaluation Beyond the University
4 Investigating Informal Blending at the University of Illinois Springfield
Section II Evaluation
5 SCOPe-ing out Interactions in Blended Environments
6 Student Perspectives on Blended Learning Through the Lens of Social, Teaching, and Cognitive Presence
7 To Be or Not to Be: Student and Faculty Perceptions of Engagement in a Blended Bachelor of Education Program
8 A Five-Year Study of Sustaining Blended Learning Initiatives to Enhance Academic Engagement in Computer and Information Sciences Campus Courses
9 Trial and Error: Iteratively Improving Research on Blended Learning
10 Practice Makes Perfect?: Assessing the Effectiveness of Online Practice Exams in Blended Learning Biology Classes
Section III Faculty Issues
11 Implementation of Blended Learning for the Improvement of Student Learning
12 The Impact of Instructional Development and Training for Blended Teaching on Course Effectiveness
13 Growing Your Own Blended Faculty: A Review of Current Faculty Development Practices in Traditional, Not-for-Profit Higher Education Institutions
14 Choice Does Matter: Faculty Lessons Learned Teaching Adults in a Blended Program
Section IV Studying Non-traditional Learners
15 Variation in Adult Learners’ Experiences of Blended Learning in Higher Education
16 Educating Warrior Diplomats: Blended and Unconventional Learning for Special Operations Forces
Section V International Perspectives
17 “Are You Working in the Kitchen?”: European Perspectives on Blended Learning
18 Out of Hours: Online and Blended Learning Workload in Australian Universities
Section VI Blended Learning in K–12 Environments
19 Blended Learning in the K–12 Education Sector
20 Blended Learning in New York City: The iLearnNYC Program
21 Blending it All Together
Index