Implementing and promoting blended learning in higher education institutions

Implementing and promoting blended learning in higher education institutions

Comparative blended learning practices and environments

• Wang, Lixun The Hong Kong Institue of Education

• Ng, E. M. W.

Hershey, PA

Information Science Reference

2010

• F 教與學
  • FA 一般教學方法、各種施教方法
• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QE 專上教育

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

With the rapid development of the Internet, blended learning (online learning plus face-to-face learning) has become a model that more and more higher education institutions are intending to adopt. This chapter first compares various forms and expressions of blended learning adopted by different institutions around the world, and then reports on how blended learning has been implemented and promoted in the English Department at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) using a variety of approaches. Here, a number of projects have been carried out over the past seven years, focusing on the conversion of traditional face-to-face modules into partly face-to-face, partly online modules. In addressing these developments, the Blackboard online learning management system, which has been adopted as the main platform for the delivery of blended learning at HKIEd, is first examined. Then the design of a series of subject-specific Web sites to supplement the Blackboard system and facilitate blended learning is introduced. Finally, the implementation of innovative Wikibook projects is illustrated and discussed. Such Wikibook projects, where students are required to work in groups to write an academic textbook collaboratively online, are highly effective in promoting not only autonomous yet collaborative online academic reading and writing, but also online peer editing. This adds a new dimension to blended learning. Feedback from students shows that they greatly enjoyed the experience of collaborative academic writing through the Wikibook projects, and found that the wiki technology made peer editing much more efficient and effective. All the evidence suggests that blended learning has great potential as a vehicle for teaching and learning and is a notable current trend in higher education.
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• 英文

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https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/9ab99eec

2015-12-08