creating a successful blended learning course: best practices, implementation and lessons learned

Crea%ngaSuccessfulBlendedLearningCourse:BestPrac%ces,Implementa%onandLessonslearned

BaiyunChen,Ph.D.Instruc%onalDesignerUniversityofCentralFloridaDistanceLearningConference2016

EnrichingLearningEnvironmentswithTechnology

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UCFToday:63,000+Students

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AcademicYear2014-2015

• 37.79%oftotalstudentcredithours• 77.7%ofstudentstookatleastoneonlinecourse(W,M,V)

– 80.19%ofallundergraduates(47,116)– 61.13%ofallgraduatestudents(6,469)

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UniversityofCentralFlorida

Since1995

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DefineBlendedLearning

Modelsadop?ngthecombina?onofonlineandface-to-faceinstruc?on.

Graham,Henrie&Gibbons(2014)

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WhyBlendedLearning?

TRENDSShort-TermImpact

IncreasingUseofBlendedLearningDesigns

DownloadNMCReportat:hap://goo.gl/qZBpSr

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OverallStudent“Excellent”Ra%ngs

BlendedLearning 56%FullyOnline 55%Face-to-Face 53%Video 47%

N=756,445

–Dziuban & Moskal, 2016 *New survey beginning Spring 2013

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StudentSuccess(A,BorCgrade)

88 91 87 88 91 8890 94 91 91 95 9289 91 89 90 92 91

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Spring14 Sum14 Fall14 Spring15 Sum15 Fall15

F2F(n=581,010) Blended(n=75,684) FullyOnline(n=199,787)

–Dziuban & Moskal, 2016 *New survey beginning Spring 2014

PERC

ENTA

GE

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StudentWithdrawal

4 3 4 4 3 44 2 3 3 2 35 4 5 4 3 40

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Spring14 Sum14 Fall14 Spring15 Sum15 Fall15

F2F(n=655,631) Blended(n=81,091) FullyOnline(n=200,095)

–Dziuban & Moskal, 2016 *New survey beginning Spring 2014

PERC

ENTA

GE

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CONCEPTUALIZEYOURCOURSEDesignBlendedLearning

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DesignBlendedLearning

Whatshouldlearnersbeabletodoattheendofthisblendedcourse?

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Objec?veBuilder 12

CourseBlueprint

Objec?veBuilder

hap://bit.ly/Objec%veBuilder

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haps://blended.online.ucf.edu/blendkit-course-diy-project-tasks/14

COURSECONTENTDesignBlendedLearning

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Chunking:AverageTimeinLMS13:08

9:49

5:50

12:18

0:00

2:24

4:48

7:12

9:36

12:00

14:24

Computer Tablet Smartphone Average All Devices

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Chunking:DesignSugges%ons

ModulePlanning:hap://bit.ly/ModulePlanning

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UseofVideos

hap://bit.ly/CDLVideos

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Howtomakeengagingvideos?

•  Shortvideos(6minutes)•  Personalfeel•  Highenthusiasm•  Khan-styletutorials•  Tietoassessments

Guo,Kim&Rubin(2014);Hibbert(2014)

hap://bit.ly/EEL3552CVideo

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OERinCourseDesign

•  UCF’sDiigoresourceforfaculty:hap://bit.ly/OERList

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COURSEINTERACTIONDesignBlendedLearning

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OnlineDiscussion:Protocols

hap://bit.ly/DiscussionProtocol

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OnlineDiscussion:Crea%vePrompts

hap://bit.ly/OnlineDiscussions 23

Crea%veAc%vi%es

haps://vimeo.com/792630624

COURSEASSESSMENTDesignBlendedLearning

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OnlineQuizzes

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember

Bloom’sTaxonomy

hap://bit.ly/CreateQuizQues%ons 26

Authen%cProject

“Itishybridbetweenapolarbearandakangaroo.Itisanamphibianbecauseithasgillsonthesideofits’face…Yet,itisalsoabletojumpleapsandboundsonlandtoquicklytravel.”

Myanimalispartfish/partalligator

KristenKimball,DonnasueGraesserUniversityofConnec%cut

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KeepItSimpleStart

hap://bit.ly/SelfAssessmentForm28

Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository

a resource to support the curation of effective pedagogical practices in online and blended courses All released for reuse/remix under Creative Commons http://topr.online.ucf.edu

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BecomingaBlendedLearningDesigner

Feb22–May16,2016

hap://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-ucf-mooc

Licensedforreuse/remixingunderCrea%veCommons

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