Location: EV1 241 Notes: Open to faculty (registration is required)
Description: Blended Learning integrates thoughtfully structured online activities into face-to-face courses. Students engage in online activities such as taking quizzes and contribution to discussion forums, and interact with online course materials such as lecture notes, screencasts, and simulations. These online activities and resources contribute to student success in several ways: they can help prepare students for class discussions or lab experiences; they can promote understanding of challenging course concepts; they can assess students’ retention of course concepts and skills; and they can foster a sense of community within the course.
Learning Outcomes: After the session, participants will be able to:
- Describe different kinds of blended learning
- Identify the advantages and challenges of developing and teaching blended courses
- Start to identify some common tools available for developing teaching and learning activities for blended courses
- Align the intended learning outcomes, assessments and teaching and learning activities for a given course
- Consider a plan for implementing a blended activity and/or a blended course
Additional Resources:
Facilitators: Monica Vesely (CTE) and Samar Mohamed (CTE)
Help with registration.
A chart providing an overview of all the workshop in the Educational Technologies workshop series is available at https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/2016ed-tech