Strategies for Building Blended Learning

In looking into blended learning the following urls were found:
-Strategies for Building Blended Learning describes several ideas but also states that blended learning enhances learning (unfortunately the link to Netg's white paper is broken).
-Blended Learning: What Works? describing the latest buzz-word.
-The Blended Learning Unit is the homepage for the cetl associated with blended learning.
-A Blended Learning Approach for Teaching Professionalized Action is a paper from the networked learning conference 2004.
-VLEs and is the UCISA paper and mentioned earlier in my blog.
-EUNIS elearning workshop
-Blending Online and Classroom Activities is the jiscinfonets view on it.
- Blended learning: Forget the name but what about the claims? comes from OU Knowledge Network.
- an infrastructure for blended learning describes some of the physical resource issues.
-Blended strategies to support lifelong learners. A survey of present practice
-Case studies of innovative e-learning practice contains one for blended learning.

One of the majjor themes at 'The networked learning conference 2004' held in Sheffield was on blended learning.

Epic Group plc - blended learning and knowledge solutions

As always the epic group comes throguh with a nice clear explanation of some of the issues in Epic Group plc - blended learning and knowledge solutions

Marketing - Promotion - Push and Pull Strategy

There are inherent issues when we plunder terms from other industries. The terms "push-pull" would appear to come from the world of business / marketing cf. Marketing - Promotion - Push and Pull Strategy.

A useful article entitles Push & Pull technologies using a WIDE approach discusses how the student might identify the his preferred style for push-pull learning.

A useful JISC document

I would recommend all staff to read the document Effective Practice with e-Learning . Produced by JISC it both useful and clear and moves the agenda for elearning away from the 'technology' to the idea of the process/activity.

It also widents the interpretation of e-learning to be wider than simply that which is designed specifically for delivery as 'CBT' / Online learning.

EELIP Unit starts now

Well today is the start of the new term and the start of the new unit.

I have created a weblog for the unit reflections:

EELIP Reflections.

VLEs & Blended Learning

The paper Blended learning discussion encapsulates some of the issues I have been raising about VLE in relation to learning communities.

The conclusion states that it raises a lot of questions - it migh make an interesting dissertation topic along the lines of online 'virtual learning environments are more than a sum of their parts'. It would be interesting to investigate how the open / closed nature of them dictate the style and development of learning.