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Blended learning in Higher Education
Learning Theories
Personal Teaching Approaches
Design for Learning
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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
This is the first stage in the development of college professors as teachers according to Kugel (1993). They think mainly about themselves and worry about making mistakes. Professors at this stage tend to assume that their effectiveness depends wholly on what they do, and that it can only be evaluated by others.
What is "focus on the self"?
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
These three elements are integrated in the community of inquiry, 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
After professors have developed good ways to present their material, they may continue to worry about their mastery of the material they are presenting. Do they know enough? Have they read enough? Many professors shift the central focus of their concern from how they are teaching to what they are teaching.
What is "focus on the subject" or "focus on the material"?
300
This is one of the most common entry points for the backward design process.
What are established goals or an important skill?
500
It is a form of engagement through which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse in a critical community of inquiry.
What is the Cognitive Presence?
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
This is the final transition when professors begin to notice that their students are individuals with different interests and abilities and that they are not passive receivers of what was being taught. Also professors begin to realize they may have to be teaching less, but students are learning more, remembering it longer and understanding it better.
What is "focus on student" or "focus on student learning"?
500
Stage 1 is the Desired Results, stage 2 is the Assessment Evidence and stage 3 is the Learning Plan.
What are the three stages of the backward design model?