Blended Learning: Research Perspectives
Terms For This Type of Delivery Mode
In reference to the poll that is up right now (the term that institutions use for their blended/hybrid/mixed-mode/etc course), what are some other terms that folks use at their institutions?
I've also seen multi-mode, which is pretty close to mixed-mode. I've also seen enhanced face-to-face (where the primary delivery mode is still face-to-face, but some online techniques are used to enhance the course).
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Online Learning Modes
The definitions for various online learning modes seem to still be evolving based on what I've read here. At Mercy College in Westchester County, NY, we use the following terminology and definitions--please feel free to comment on each!
A pure online course is one in which all students are in the same section and do all of their class meetings online.
A hybrid online course is one in which all students are in the same section but classes meet part of the time in a classroom and part of the time online.
A blended online course is one in which both on-campus and online students are in the same section where the on-campus students have all their class meetings on-campus and the online students have all their class meetings online.
A web-enhanced course is one in which an online WebCT/Blackboard course shell is used to supplement an on-campus course.
Karen M. White
Assistant Dean, Mercy Online
Dobbs Ferry, NY
web-based/web-enhanced
Hey Keith,
Here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, we use the term "web-enhanced" to describe any type of blended course. We have not addressed reducing face to face seat time with web-enhanced classes YET, although our faculty already take the liberty of adjusting the classroom times.
We use the term "web-based" for totally online courses. Our reasoning is that a 100% online course could NEVER meet face to face, it would have to be totally online (and asynchronous for that matter). Some faculty wanted the option for meeting with their students once or twice during the semester for orientation, testing, presentations, etc. They also wanted the option to have proctored exams. Hence the term web-based.
With the recent adoption of VoIP web conferencing tools, our university will be offering web-based courses which can have synchronous meetings. My guess is that we will see web-enhanced courses using these synchronous meeting tools too to reduce face to face seat time.
Aimee Dixon
Director of Scholarly Technology and Resources
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
The term used here
Well, here they use "elearning" to categorize everything associated with computer-mediated learning. We do not substitute face-to-face hours with online activities, so these are additional hours faculty and students spend outside of the class time.
Loretta Y. Teng
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Central Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology
Types of Delivery
Keith,
On our campus we're in the process of classify courses based upon how they utilize online resources. Even though we've not formalized this yet, here is the spectrum of general categories we are considering:
-Physical Classroom (face-to-face)
-Enhanced (still meet in the physical classroom as scheduled, but are supplemented with online instruction and resources)
-Hybrid (some physical classroom time is replaced with online instruction and resources)
-Fully Online (some high percentage, say 90-100%, of the course is delivered online)
-Distance Education (these are fully online courses as related to programs and certifications)
I hope this helps.
Mark
Terms for this type of delivery mode
At our college, we've been using "blended learning" to signify this type of delivery mode. However, some people are still using the phrase, "blended/hybrid," and I think we as a community should stick with one term. "Hybrid" reminds me of the car...how many miles per gallon are we getting on this delivery mode, anyway? ;-)
Anita Bleffert-Schmidt
SUNY Ulster
Terms used at DeVry
DeVry University uses a term called iOptimize for their blended learning environment where accelerated courses are taught. These courses have a reduced seat time from the standard courses and have online requirements to supplement the reduced seat time.
Even though the term hybrid or blended is not used for the standard courses professors, adjunct and full-time, have a mandate to use the university's course management platform, eCollege. Some professors use it as a repository for syllabus, notes etc. whereas others utilize threaded discussions in the standard classes for an extension of the class discussion.
Devena Singleton
Associate Professor
DeVry University
dsingleton@kc.devry.edu