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Blended Learning Tips and Tricks. Blended learning refers to the use of eLearning in combination with face-to-face teaching. Here are three simple ways to use eLearning in your teaching for a blended learning approach.
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Use discussion postings from your subject website to facilitate discussion in class. |
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Create a discussion area in WebCT for one of your topics and post a provocative or challenging question or point of view for the students to respond to. Tell students that you will be discussing this topic in the next class and encourage them to go to the discussion area and post their comments. In this way students have the opportunity to think about the issues before class and you can use their comments as part of the discussion in class. |
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Provide online multiple choice or short answer questions to assess students' learning. |
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Use the online assessment tool in WebCT to post multiple choice or short answer questions for your students to complete. By providing students with opportunities to test their knowledge of particular topics or concepts you are providing them with feedback on their progress which they can use to focus their study efforts. |
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Build up a database of online resources for a topic using resources students have found and critically evaluated. |
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Give your students an activity where they need to find online resources relevant to a particular topic. These might include websites, multimedia presentations, videos or blogs. Have your students collate the resources they find - you can get them to do this in class or online - and to discuss and critically evaluate each of the resources. Each time you do this activity with your students you can update your database of resources with new ones that your students discover! |
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Consider incorporating "reusable learning objects" - videos, simulations, presentations etc. - available for free online in your teaching. |
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Consider incorporating "reusable learning objects" - videos, simulations, presentations etc. - available for free online in your teaching. Here are some links to website that have a whole range of high quality reusable learning objects. Have a look at what's on offer to see whether there are learning activities suitable for your students.
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Create a group in Facebook and post resources (e.g., photos, video, links) and set up discussions for your students. |
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Create a group in Facebook and post resources (e.g., photos, video, links) and set up discussions for your students. This social networking application is familiar to students and you may find it easier to get them to look at something in Facebook than other sites. It also has some good features and add-on applications that can be used for educational purposes. eLDSS run workshops on using Facebook in your teaching - see the eLDSS website for further information. |
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Use online games such as flashcards and crosswords to help students learn discipline specific vocabulary in a fun and enjoyable way. |
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Use online games such as flashcards and crosswords to help students learn discipline specific vocabulary in a fun and enjoyable way. Hotpotatoe is an applications that allows you to create interactive:
- Quizzes with multiple-choice and short-answer questions;
- Games with jumbled-sentences, matching/ordering and fill-in-the-gapexercises
- Crosswords (this is really cool and very easy to use!)
Students can access these games on the web (or from your WebCT site). This software is free to use for publicly-funded, non profit-making educational institutions (which means PolyU!), but see the licensing terms for details.
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If you need assistance with using eLearning in your teaching or would like to find out more please visit the eLDSS website or contact the 3C Project Team directly.
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