Whether your institution has an extensive history of providing instructional design support for fully-online courses or you're just beginning to explore instructional design models for flipped classrooms, there is a clear pathway for your institution to support blended pedagogy through instructional design. As increasingly diverse digital learning modalities have emerged, instructional design units are facing growing demand for expertise in the support of blended pedagogies and blended course design. This session will provide participants with strategies, tools, and techniques for developing a blended instructional design regardless of their current state of blended ID expertise
Whether your institution has an extensive history of providing instructional design support for fully-online courses or you're just beginning to explore instructional design models, this session will provide a map for charting a clear pathway for your institution or team to effectively support blended pedagogy through instructional design.
As increasingly diverse digital learning modalities have emerged, instructional design units are facing growing demand for expertise in the support of blended pedagogies and blended course design. This session will provide participants with strategies, tools, and techniques for developing a blended instructional design regardless of their current instructional design infrastructure and readiness.
The session will explore common misconceptions about blended learning, provide strategies for establishing clear institutional definitions for blended, hybrid, online, web-enhanced, flipped, and other related modalities, review tactics for supporting faculty in determining which blended course activities are best delivered fully-online versus in the classroom, and introduce course design tools to ensure that blended activities are anchored and interconnected to provide a cohesive learning experience.
Effective blended course design is not simply adding online activities to the design of a face-to-face course, but instead requires its own unique and carefully considered approach to course design, resulting in learning experiences that leverage the best of classroom and digital learning in an integrated and engaging manner. This session will provide participants with the tools to create powerful blended learning experiences for their students and their institutions.
Upon completion of this session, participants will:
- Explore institutional definitions for blended learning and teaching
- Leverage Macro-Design strategies to establish a blended instructional design paradigm
- Identify activities and course elements best suited for online and face-to-face delivery
- Consider institutional barriers to the support of effective blended course design
- Discover mapping tools to support the anchoring and integration of online and f2f blended activities
- Explore how learning analytics can enhance blended instructional design