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The Blended Teacher as Bricoleur: Diverse and flexible teaching requirements for seamless, engaging blended learning
Facilitator:
Marti Cleveland-Innes
Institution:
Athabasca University
Date and time:
Jun 06, 2012 11:00 AM
Blending diverse learning experiences has been in existence since humans started thinking about teaching. Recently, the term blended learning emerged to describe the infusion of new technologies into the traditional learning and teaching process. In particular, the Internet provides the opportunity to create, support and/or maintain a community of learners in a blend of place-based and Internet-based environments. Still under discussion are the fine distinctions and effects of activities in learning environments touched by the Internet, and its social, instructional, and cognitive impact.
In an autoethnographic account of leading and facilitating such a blended university course, descriptions of the instructor's intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences are referenced against proposed teaching strategies in a blended community of inquiry. Post-course student responses to the learning experience demonstrate that the highest value was placed on the learning environment created by the group and the instructor's support.
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