Blended learning in Higher Education
Learning Theories
Personal teaching approaches
Design for Learning
100
It is the thoughtful fusion of face-to-face and online learning experiences. It represents a restructuring of the course with the goal to enhance engagement and to extend access to online learning opportunities.
What is blended learning?
100
A theory stipulating that learning occurs through forming connections between stimuli and responses without any considerations of the internal mental states.
What is Behaviorism?
100
A theory which presents teaching as information transfer to students.
What is transfer theory?
100
A design process that starts with identifying key understandings as desired results for a session before planning assessment evidence and learning activities.
What is backward design? OR What is Understanding by Design?
300
The community of inquiry is a cohesive and interactive community of learners whose purpose is to critically analyze, construct, and confirm worthwhile knowledge. The community of inquiry integrates three key elements.
What is cognitive presence? What is social presence? What is teaching presence?
300
A learning theory based on the idea that prior knowledge, skills, beliefs and concepts significantly influence constructing new knowledge.
What is Constructivism?
300
According to this concept, more emphasis is on what is happening to the student as a person. The driving force for growing is internal. The emphasis is on what the student is becoming as a person rather than on where he or she is going in terms of mastery of the subject.
What is growing theory?
300
This is one of the six common entry points for the backward design process.
What are 'established goals or content standards'? OR What is 'an important topic or content'? OR What is 'an important skill or process'? OR What is 'a significant task'? OR What is 'a key text or resources'? OR What is 'a favorite activity or familiar unit'?
500
A learning theory in which blended learning is embedded.
What is constructivism?
500
The assumption that the learner’s mind is compared to a computer processor where new data is connected to prior knowledge and is stored to be retrieved later.
What is one assumption of Cognitivism?
500
As professors develop they shift their focus from “self” to two subsequent transitions.
What is focus on subject? (What is focus on content?) What is focus on student? (What is focus on learning?)
500
It is a task that is realistically contextualized and requires the student to use knowledge and skills effectively in scenarios that replicate challenges and problems from real-life situations.
What is an authentic task?
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