Re- thinking Blended Learning Joy Higgs EFPI

the combination of face-to-face teaching and learning with online teaching and learning EARLY Blended Learning

Simplistic Blended Learning structured opportunities to learn, which use more than one training method, inside or outside the classroom formats. ( Pankin, J., et al 2012)

Blended Learning or just educational tools ? Technology enhanced learning not technology driven

Re-claiming Blended Learning Design Purpose a design approach whereby both face-to-face and online learning are made better by the presence of each other (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008, p.5).

Pedagogies are teaching and learning strategies – they include purposes/goals as well as activities/actions (Higgs, 2015) Remembering PEDAGOGY in Blended Learning

Re-thinking Blended Learning Introducing Transcending Pedagogies: learning and teaching strategies that blend the best of purpose and process to extend learning outcomes by transcending possibilities

Transcending Pedagogies Transcend: On/off campus courses F2F/Virtual worlds Time + place Student cohorts Learning, social and work spaces

Transcending Pedagogies: Examples Simulated learning Mobile learning Simulated workplaces Student-managed project learning Self-directed learning Peer learning Technology-enhanced - workplace learning - on campus learning - Peer learning Role plays in physical and virtual worlds

Transcending Pedagogies – A way of re-thinking Blended Learning Learning strategies that are life-long and life-wide Learning for global citizenship and for practice Learning for life and work