A client wanted a headstart in blended learning. This is what I presented them, including three exercises.

1. Wytze Koopal
info@koopaladvies.nl
www.koopaladvies.nl
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2.  Better understanding of blended learning
 Different sorts of tools for blended learning
 Make informed choice between possible
scenario’s for blended learning
 Pitfalls and best practices
 Exercise with tool(s) yourself
 Please don’t hesitate if you have any questions
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3. 1. What is blended learning?
2. Exercise 1: what will you and your organisation gain
from blended learning?
3. Software categories for blended learning and
e-learning
4. Examples and demonstrations of tools
Coffee break?
5. Exercise 2: create your own online learning
materials
6. Exercise 3: find, evaluate and build upon existing
materials
7. Create or reuse?
8. Trends and future developments
9. Wrapup
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4.  Blend of formal and informal learning
 Blend of workplace and classroom
 Blend of instructionally structured resources
and resources created for a purpose other
than learning
 Blend of interaction with others in the same
or different locations
 Blend of digital and physical
locations
 More blends?
Collis, B., & Moonen, J. (2005). An on-going journey: Technology as a learning workbench.
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. http://www.BettyCollisJefMoonen.nl
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5.  “Choosing the best blend for a learning situation is
a new skill. Designing a Web environment to
integrate the components of the blend is also a
new skill.“
 This implies that role of trainer changes:
◦ Less face-to-face instructional activities
◦ More ICT savvy
◦ Broader repertoire of learning activities
◦ Community manager
◦ Moderator
◦ Facilitator
Collis, B., & Moonen, J. (2005). An on-going journey: Technology as a learning workbench.
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. http://www.BettyCollisJefMoonen.nl
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6.  “Informal learning is the unofficial,
unscheduled, impromptu way people learn to
do their jobs.” Jay Cross (2010)
 Video explanation by Jay Cross himself
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlETGJ0mnno
http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/informal-learning-an-interview-with-jay-cross
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7.  This is a matter of transfer:
◦ will you still remember what is told in the classroom
weeks ago?
◦ will you be able to execute a task that you trained
last month?
◦ how realistic can a classroom training be anyway?
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8. Collis B., & Moonen J. (2001). Flexible learning in a digital world (pp.86-
109). London: Kogan Page.
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9.  Some suggestions:
◦ Supply your participants with key
resources to study (online)
◦ Supply an e-assessment
◦ Give them opportunity to provide their
specific questions (or learning goals)
◦ Let them write an essay (e.g. weblog)
◦ Record (parts of) your lecture through
video and make this available
◦ Let them submit materials online
◦ Build connections by providing contact
possibilities (social networking)
◦ Any other suggestions?
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10.  Some suggestions:
◦ Beware of too much lecturing
◦ Create and provide exercises and
activities
◦ Use peer feedback
◦ Design an follow-up activity
◦ Any other suggestions?
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11.  Some suggestions:
◦ Check out the results of the
follow-up activity
◦ Provide exercises, quizzes and
activities
◦ Let them build their professional
network online
◦ Any other suggestions?
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12. Satish Patel (2009): https://vimeo.com/6309098
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13.  Flexibility in
◦ time
◦ location
◦ trainer
◦ but mostly dependent on internet-connection
 Creative use of
◦ interactivity / learning activities
◦ audio and/or video
 More geared to individual learner
 More active engagement expected of
learner
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14.  (1) "The delivery of formal and informal learning
and training activities, processes, communities and
events via means of all electronic media like
Internet, intranet, extranet, CD-ROM, video tape,
DVD, TV, cell phones, smartphones et cetera."
 (2) “E-learning comprises all forms of electronically
supported learning and teaching. (..) The term will
still most likely be utilized to reference out-of-
classroom and in-classroom educational
experiences via technology, even as advances
continue in regard to devices and curriculum.”
(1) Marcel de Leeuwe: http://www.leerbeleving.nl/wbts/1/what_is_elearning.html
(2) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
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15. Before During After
Collis B., & Moonen J. (2001). Flexible learning in a digital world (pp.
86-109). London: Kogan Page.
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16.  Questions to ask yourself:
 What can and should be
learned invidually?
 How and when can I use
peer feedback / review?
 What are exactly the
training needs of the
learners; which skills
should they acquire?
 How can i deliver (digital)
content before and after?
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17.  Jane Hart : http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2011/10/28/you-cant-manage-
informal-learning-only-use-of-informal-media
 Hans de Zwart: http://www.slideshare.net/hansdezwart/7-problemen-en-9-
vragen-voor-opleiders
 Marcel de Leeuwe: http://www.slideshare.net/marceldeleeuwe/fontysavond-
over-elearning-tools-op-14-feb-2012
 Wilfred Rubens: http://www.te-learning.nl/developrubens.pdf
 Open Universiteit: http://portal.ou.nl/nl/web/leren-met-ICT
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19.  What is your analysis right now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis 19

20.  Write down (10 minutes)
◦ Strengths, or greatest (potential)
benefits
◦ Weaknesses, or pitfalls
◦ Opportunities, external chances to improve
◦ Threats, external elements that could cause trouble
 Discussion (15 minutes)
 We will get back at unanswered issues later in this workshop
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22.  What kind of software tools are out there?
 Basically a few types:
◦ Learning Management (administration & delivery &
access)
◦ Authoring (production)
◦ Networking (connect, share, re-use, trust)
◦ Repositories (sharing, distribution)
◦ Secondary stuff, such as screen recording,
webinars, etc
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23.  Slighty different systems
◦ Blackboard, N@tschool,
Saba, Docent, Moodle ->
Sakai, It’s Learning,
 Very similar in functionality
◦ courses
◦ classes and groups
◦ assignments
◦ schedules
◦ grading
◦ access to content
◦ some stuff that we categorize
hereafter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
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24.  Authoring Lectora, EasyGenerator, Articulate, eXe
 Graphical Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp
 Audio Audacity
 Animation Flash, Fireworks
 Simulation Captivate, OnDemand
 Video YouTube, Vimeo, Pinnacle, iMovie
 Screencapturing SnagIt, Jing, Screenr
 Assessment Questionmark, HotPotatoes
 Simulation Viewletbuilder
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25.  OCW Consortium
 Connexions
 Merlot
 Wikiversity
 Wikibooks
 Khan Academy
 OER Commons
 (NL) WikiWijs
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26.  LinkedIn : closed groups
 Twitter e.g. follow thought leaders
 Facebook : create your own presence
 Elgg : create your own (closed) community,
with subgroups etc
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27.  Communication
◦ Chat [ICQ, MSN, Skype]
◦ Apps and screen sharing [PC Anywhere, Skype]
◦ Videoconferencing [Live Messenger, Skype]
 Content and knowledge management
◦ Weblog [Wordpress, Blogger]
◦ Wiki [DokuWiki, MediaWiki]
 Visualisatie tools
◦ MindMapping [MindManager, FreeMind]
◦ Flowcharts [Visio]
 Virtual Classrooms [DimDim, Adobe Connect, Skype]
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28. http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
http://www.ocwsearch.com/
http://www.KHANAcademy.org
http://cnx.org/
http://www.oercommons.org/
http://www.merlot.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com
http://en.wikibooks.org
http://en.wikiversity.org
http://www.p2pu.org/en
Social network, eg. Elgg
Articulate Studio
eXe Learning
HotPotatoes
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29.  Challenge: we’d like to exchange digital
learning materials
 The solution:
◦ we agree on a certain format
 So we have
◦ Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
◦ IMS Content Packaging (IMS CP)
◦ IMS Question and Test Operability (IMS QTI)
◦ http://www.imsglobal.org/specifications.html
◦ EPUB (digital books)
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30.  Challenge: we’d like to exchange digital
learning materials
 The problem:
◦ we may not freely use or rewrite it
 Solution
◦ not Copyright, but Copyleft
◦ Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org)
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32.  eXe Learning
 Hot Potatoes
 Articulate Studio
 (perhaps other tools?)
 Take 30-40 minutes
 See instructions in handout
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33.  How did it go?
 Any changes in your SWOT analysis?
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34.  Take 20 – 30 minutes
 See instructions in handout
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35.  How did it go?
 Any changes in your SWOT analysis?
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36.  What is your opinion?
 Have you read the license conditions?
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40.  Informal
 Producing
 Remixing
 Is personal: finding the right teacher,
the right content, the right time
(learning network)
 Always on: mobile, ubiquitous
http://www.slideshare.net/wrubens/trends-elearning2011
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41. Learning in networks, social learning
 Peter Sloep e.a.: http://celstec.org/content/leernetwerken
 Jane Hart: http://www.slideshare.net/janehart/the-future-of-elearning-is-
social-learnng
Curriculum and instructional design
 Marius van Bruggen: http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~stud099/Marius/Home01.html
 Van Merrienboer, Jeroen & Kirschner, Paul A. (2008, September 9). Four
Component Instructional Design (4C/ID). SciTopics. Retrieved February 28,
2012, from
http://www.scitopics.com/Four_Component_Instructional_Design_4C_ID.html
 David Merrill:
https://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/aect2002/firstprinciplesbymerrill.pdf
 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Instructional_Technology/Models_of_Instruction
al_Design
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