The Blended Learning Mastery Series: Research into Practice aims to promote a deeper understanding of blended learning research and practice among teaching faculty members, instructional designers, and institutional executives through a discussion and critique of recent literature on blended learning. Following the Quality Scorecard for Blended Learning as a framework, the topics of the workshops include a review of recent literature and standards, institutional implementation of blended learning, evidence-based best practices, scholarship, and evaluation of blended teaching and learning. At the conclusion of the series, participants will have completed a personal action plan that includes a problem statement where areas of blended learning instruction and/or implementation can be improved, best practices to address their problem statement, and an evaluation plan for gathering data on the effectiveness of the blended learning approach.

Learning Objectives

  • Critique the definition of blended learning beyond content and technology using the Quality Scorecard and updated research
  • Evaluate the adoption of a blended learning curriculum at the program or institutional level
  • Assess best practices in relation to learner, instructor, and content to improve blended learning
  • Assess best practices in relation to technology, learning support, and institution to improve blended learning
  • Determine the steps needed to incorporate the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in a blended learning project
  • Propose an evaluation strategy for gathering data on the effectiveness of your blended learning approach