11/25/2024

Hi TOPcast Insiders!

What about you? 

What is happening with blended learning where you are? (Or do you prefer “hybrid?” How do you see that relating to HyFlex and other dual mode approaches?) How are you ensuring quality for student benefit? How are you fostering innovation? How do you know whether you are being successful?

We would love to hear what you have to say. Tag us on Twitter (@topcastnow), or drop us a line via email (topcast@ucf.edu).

- Tom and Kelvin

30 minute video (plus chat and transcript) from OLC Live: “Blended Learning and Faculty Preparation” collegial discussion facilitated by Kelvin and Tina Rettler-Pagel (Madison College) during OLC Innovate 2022

[Note: “OLC Live” is an on-going engagement series offered during OLC conferences. Thanks to the Online Learning Consortium (OLC)  for the use of this recording.]

As a companion piece to episode 113 on “onlineness,” in this episode hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the related concept of “blendedness” - the deliberate design of a unified in-person + online experience in ways that benefit students directly.

• Single-Origin Kenya Karimikui from Cat & Cloud Coffee, Santa Clara, CA
• About Cat & Cloud Coffee
• Cat & Cloud: The Podcast

Find a link to digital learning course redesign initiative outcomes touching on blended learning

• From ECAR: “2019 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology”
• Study: “Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies” (Barbara Means et al.)
  
• “What Is a Hybrid Course?” (from the Lasallian Way Online Podcast)
  
• From the BlendKit Course Materials: Mix Map
• Book (Free/Open): Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) Course Design (Beatty)
• TOPcast Episode #113: “The Three Students You Might Meet in Your Online Class”
• TOPcast Episode #111: “‘Onlineness:’ Necessity, Not Convenience”
• TOPcast Episode #97: “Finding the Right Mix of Modalities at Your Institution”
• TOPcast Episode #91: “Intermodal Learning”
  
• TOPcast Episode #85: “Blended Is the Future. (And It's Not Just Courses)”
• TOPcast Episode #77: “Field Report 08: Strategic Blended Learning in ‘COVID Times’”
• TOPcast Episode #29:  “Designing Better Blended Learning” (with guest Dr. Norm Vaughan)
• TOPcast Episode #17: “Researching ‘Questions of Consequence’” (with guest Dr. Charles Graham)
  
• TOPcast Episode #4: “Blended Learning Part Deux: Designing the Optimal Blend”
  
• TOPcast Episode #3: “Blended Learning: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Faculty Preferences and Institutional Goals”
  

• “The Story of 'WHASSUP?!'”
• “Where’s the beef?”
• “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
• “Gotta make the donuts.” [sic]
• Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz: “Speedy Alka-Seltzer”

• Video Version of this Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)