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

✍ Scribed by Yukiko Inoue, Yukiko Inoue

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgment......Page 23
The Nature of Complex Blends: Transformative Problem-Based Learning and Technology in Irish Higher Education......Page 26
Experiences and Perceptions of Learner Engagement in Blended Learning Environments: The Case of an Australian University......Page 48
Instructional Leadership and Blended Learning: Confronting the Knowledge Gap in Practice......Page 69
Blended Learning in a Creative Writing Program: Lessons Learned from a Two-Year Pilot Study......Page 88
Blended Learning for Adaptation to Needs......Page 101
Virtual Reality or Virtually Real: Blended Teaching and Learning in a Master’s Level Research Methods Class......Page 116
Teaching Online: What Does Blended Learning Require?......Page 137
The Perfect Blend?: Online Blended Learning from a Linguistic Perspective......Page 157
Reflections: Two Years after Implementing a Blended Educational Research Course......Page 170
A Case of Using Wikis to Foster Collaborative Learning: Pedagogical Potential and Recommendations......Page 192
Virtual Organizing Professional Learning Communities through a Servant-Leader Model of Appreciative Coaching......Page 208
Bothering with Technology: Building Community in an Honors Seminar......Page 233
Index......Page 0