Blended Learning

Perspectives, experiences, promiseJudy Kay

Every student is an individual

Every student is an individual

with individual preferences

with individual preferencesthat range across the spectrum of

blended learning options

• F2F … augmented with digital

• pervasiveness of technology ... a laptop for every student ... a home desktop … … a phone …

Some blends I have tried….

TRAC• open source tool for supporting software development projects

Wiki page editorTicket ManagerSVN source repository

Making digital footprints visible

Another blend ….

Tabletops for collaborative problem solving and knowledge creation

Automatically distinguish high from low collaboration

Model trained on a dataset captured from a multi-display setting

Low collaboration group

Highly collaborative group

A total of 453 and 88 frequent patterns for high and low collaboration groups respectively

Can tabletops automatically help a teacher determine the group

most in need of attention?

Awareness and Control

Another blend ….

MOOCs … SPOCs

• Some online “lectures”• Some f2f lectures• Weekly lab class

• Top students “attended” online classes repeatedly• Some students loved online lectures• Some preferred face to face

• Exploiting digital footprints

ITS2008Lifelong learning, learner

models and sugmented cognition

SIVLots of green means learner

doing well

Weak aspects visible as red

Overviewvisualisation

ITS2008Lifelong learning, learner

models and sugmented cognition

SIV

Exciting times

• Strengthen communication between students and teachers

• Learning resources– books … digital artefacts … simulations … autograders

• Digital footprints … visibility• Devices – personal … shared– carried, worn, portable … embedded in surfaces