Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 3 offers new insights into the state of blended learning, an instructional modality which combines face-to-face and digitally mediated experiences.
Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 3 offers new insights into the state of blended learning, an instructional modality that combines face-to-face and digitally mediated experiences. Education has recently seen remarkable advances in instructional technologies such as adaptive and personalized instruction, virtual learning environments, gaming, analytics, and big data software. This book examines how these and other evolving tools are fueling advances in our schools, colleges, and universities. Original scholarship from education’s top thinkers will prepare researchers and learning designers to tackle major issues relating to learning effectiveness, diversity, economies of scale, and beyond.
Section I - Introduction and Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Exploring
Definitions, Models, Frameworks, and Theory for Blended Learning Research
Section II Student Outcomes
3. Neotraditional Students and Online
Discussions: What Do They Really Want?
4. Blended Delivery Modes and Student
Success: An In-Depth Exploration of How Different Levels of Online and
Blended Course Taking Relate to Student Retention
5. Scaling Course Design as
Learning Analytics Variable Section III Faculty Issues
6. Highly Effective
Blended Teaching Practices
7. Blended Faculty Community of Inquiry Transforms
Online Teaching Perceptions and Practices 8: Impact Analysis of Ten Years of
Blended Learning Section IV Adaptive Learning ResearchChapter 9: Efficacy
of Adaptive Learning in Blended Courses
10. Adaptive and Active: The
Integration of Adaptive Courseware Through the Lens of Blended Learning
11. A
Blended Learning Case Study: Geo Exploration, Adaptive Learning and Visual
Knowledge Acquisition Section V K-12 Perspectives
12. Competencies and
Practices for Guiding K-12 Blended Teacher Readiness
13. Examining
Peer-to-Peer Supports in K-12 Blended Academic Communities of Engagement
14.
Intellectual Agency of Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities in a
Blended Learning Environment
15. Multimodal Blended Learning and English
Language Learners Section VI International Perspectives
16. Negotiating the
Blend
17. Blended Learning and Shared Metacognition: Whats the Connection?
18. Evidence-Based Blended Learning Design: A Synthesis of Findings from Four
Studies Section VI Science and Health Research
19. Blending Geoscience
Laboratory Learning and Undergraduate Research with Interactive Open
Educational Resources
20. Student Experiences Learning Psychomotor Skills in
a Blended Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
21. Integrative Blended
Learning: Theory, Disciplines, Application, Critical Thinking and Assessment
- Paige L. McDonald, Karen S. Schlumpf, Gregory C. Weaver, Mary Corcoran The
Future
22. Education and Blended Learning: Some Possible Futures
Anthony G. Picciano is Professor of Education Leadership at Hunter College and Professor in the PhD program in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA.
Charles D. Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida, USA.
Charles R. Graham is Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, USA.
Patsy D. Moskal is Director of the Digital Learning Impact Evaluation in the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida, USA.