1.2: Online & Blended Learning

Question 1

What is blended learning?

Answer 1

teaching approach where both traditional face-to-face instructional time and online computer-mediated activities are integrated

Question 2

What are the 6 blended learning models?

Answer 2

1. Flex
2. Face-to-Face
3. Rotation
4. Online Driver
5. Self-blend
6. Flipped classroom

Question 3

Describe the face-to-face model

Answer 3

• closely resembles a traditional classroom structure.
• bulk of the learning happens in person, with online resources used for supplemental activities or targeted instruction for students who need extra help or are ahead of the curve.

Question 4

Describe the self-blend model

Answer 4

• empowers students to take charge of their online learning alongside traditional classroom instruction
• students take the initiative
• students choose and explore online courses or resources that complement their classroom learning.

Question 5

Describe the rotation model

Answer 5

• stations with different learning activities. Students rotate through these stations throughout the designated learning block.
• Stations can include online learning activities, teacher-led instruction, group work, or independent practice.

Question 6

Describe the flex model

Answer 6

• often used for students who need extra support or have scheduling challenges.
• emphasizes online content delivery, allowing students to learn at their own pace and attend class for focused instruction or group activities.

Question 7

Describe online driver model

Answer 7

• Students acquire most of the knowledge and complete the majority of their coursework online.
• class time for clarification, projects, presentations, and assessments.

Question 8

Describe flipped classroom model

Answer 8

• delivers instructional content, such as videos or readings, online, freeing up class time for more interactive activities like lab activities, problem-solving, group work, and discussions.

Question 9

Which system was pivotal for contributions to the world in other ways, especially in the electronic field?

Answer 9

PLATO - Don Bitzer

Innovations came out: first pixel display, touch screen overlays online forums, email, instant messaging

Question 10

What was the most important thing to come out of PLATO?

Answer 10

Learning management system
- Milestone for teaching from the computer

Question 11

What are Skinner’s key ideas that influenced the design of many teaching machines?

Answer 11

1. Immediate knowledge:

leads to learning correct behaviour (efficient approach)

2. Motivating effect:

quick feedback lessens anxiety
- move at your own pace
- follows program in small steps (programming instruction)

3. Mastery learning:

complete prereq knowledge to move onto new step

• results = average student learning faster

Question 12

What are the 4 main areas that play a roll in learning?

Answer 12

1. The brain
2. Environment / surrounding stimuli
3. Associations
   - help manage complex info
4. Occurs in social and cultural context

Question 13

What are the 12 brain/mind natural learning principles?

Answer 13

1. All learning engages the physiology
2. Brain/mind is social
3. Search for meaning is innate
4. Search for meaning occurs through patterning
5. Emotions are critical to patterning
6. The brain/mind processes parts and wholes simultaneously
7. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception
8. Learning is both conscious and unconscious
9. Two approaches to memory:
   1. rote learning (taxon memory)
   2. spatial (autobiographical) memory
10. Learning is developmental
11. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat associated with helplessness and/or fatigue
12. Brain is uniquely organised