WEEK TWO

The overlying topic for week two of the course is about Blended Learning.
This is a fairly new term among teachers and educators, and is the culmination of many years of experimental teaching through the different e-media that has been evolving around us.
At the turn of the century, some 9 years ago, many learning institutions threw out the more traditional teaching approaches and learning strategies (books, blackboards and front-on pedagogy, governed by courseboooks and notebooks - remember them?!) to focus wholly on e-learning, delivered by the Internet, CDs, and subsequently, DVDs. 9 years on, the tendency is to balance input between face-to-face, more traditional approaches to teaching and a more refined thread of e-learning that has been developed over this period of time as technology has become more sophisticated and its delivery speed honed to maximise learners attention and intake.

If you want to read up on it a little more, follow these links.

Blended Learning
http://www.grayharriman.com/blended_learning.htm#7

Seven years of research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has found that blended courses ...
http://www.educause.edu/ECAR/BlendedLearning/157515

This page provides links to some resources on blended learning - that is a learning solution created through ...
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/blended.htm

Best Practices in Online Teaching - Pulling It All Together - Teaching Blended Learning Courses
http://cnx.org/content/m15048/latest/