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Post by halafawzi on Feb 2, 2010 9:36:26 GMT -5
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Post by vesile on Feb 17, 2010 9:25:03 GMT -5
I am amazed by what Dafne González started to do in her classes after she had joined the Webheads in Action. I wish I had such classes when I was a student. In order not to have more students who regrets like me in future I'll try to do my part in this system. However, I am aware of the fact that I have to be more concious in what I am doing and to choose the best way which is more practical and beneficial for my students. So I have to be flexible and have enough information and skills to combine my classes with both traditional F2F and blended learning. I may not make such big changes like Dafne González but I have some ideas and I think I will start by taking small steps
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Post by veronicabaig on Feb 17, 2010 17:19:58 GMT -5
It's really interested to see what can be achieved through blended learning., and kudos to Dafne for the innovations she has been able to bring to her teaching. My own perspective is based on my own blended learning situation. In my situation, there is no f2f, but we do provide the students--around the world--with the hard copies of the textbooks used on the courses. I'm somewhat constrained by the fact that my university uses moodle as its LMS--it's great in some respects, but some of the web 2.0 tools that I would like to use are not so great, e.g. blogs and wikis. For this reason, I have blended in blogs that use blogger and ELGG. Also, I don't have control of the admin function in moodle--we have Learning Designers who do all the admin. I do like the students having print copies of the textbooks--I think it is important for them to have reference materials that they can go to again and again. Yes, there are lots of online resources that cover the exact same areas, but unless students are directed to specific sources (and I need to keep my courses reasonably static, or at least static until the publisher comes out with a new edition of the textbook), I can't easily add and subtract materials and resources. If I see something really interesting, I add something to the blogs I use with students. So yes, I think blended learning does offer the best of both worlds, but the precise nature of the blend will vary tremendously as practitioners try to fit in the technology with their own teaching situations.
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Post by gilder on Feb 21, 2010 7:49:35 GMT -5
This is a new era of learning. As Dafne stated in her article blended learning really offers “the best of both worlds”. It is well known that most of the student’s time is consumed by the internet and its tons of websites and applications. Internet offers a variety of resources and tools for teachers. In fact, here in Becoming a Web Head we have been touch with the best teaching/learning tools. As a result, we can see that most of those tools for teaching are for free and they lead us to make our classes a unique moment. That’s why we, as teachers, have found a better way of sharing our knowledge “Blended”. Blended courses let us to design educational programs where everybody can have access. Those problems of classroom capacity are solved thanks to blended courses. In my case, I’m encouraged to start and use the goodness of the internet and create blended courses. Thanks Dafne for sharing your experience with blended courses. ;D
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Post by belkisy on Feb 21, 2010 15:59:46 GMT -5
I am all for the concept that blended learning offers the best of both worlds. I found this article very illustrative and inspiring. It clearly depicted the steps she followed in order to create a Blended Learning course for her students of architecture. I am sure that as learners during this course we all experienced that we can have the best of both worlds.
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Post by marci2010 on Feb 22, 2010 22:41:23 GMT -5
I agree with Dafne. I think that Blended Learning represents the best of 2 worlds. There are many people that feel very attracted to tecnologies which it should be taken as an advantage. The web tools can help teachers to improve and reinforce several contents and skills taught in face-to-face classes. Students can exchange their assignments' points of view or doubts with their teacher or other classmates.
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