7. A practical, moodle workshop about Blended Learning for University Teachers
The Learning objectives and the expected results of the workshop. The main aim of the course is to give teachers a realistic impression of blended learning.
The main aim of the course is to give teachers a realistic impression of how the idea of blended learning may be introduced in their courses.
More specifically, the teachers:
- Acquaint themselves with the principles of blended learning and the course (re)design and development process for introducing blended learning in their education.
- Have experience with using several pedagogical IT options and have discussed examples of blended learning activities as a group.
- Acquaint themselves with the design principles of Modern Higher Education.
- Redesign a (small part of) one of their courses into a blended learning course following the 8-stage course design and development process.
- Discuss the possibilities of using IT in their educational institute’s programmes and the requirements the university should fulfil to implement a blended learning course.
The pedagogical concept of the Moodle workshop
- The course assignments connect with the practice of the teachers where possible.
- Moodle supports the participants’ learning activities.
- The focus is on experiencing active learning. It is learning by doing. During the course, the participants study the IT options in Modern Higher Education ( (MHE).
- The subject matter is presented on the Moodle website MHEcourses.curriculumdesignhe.eu.
- Background information is available on the website ‘Design of Evidence-Based Blended Learning in Higher Education‘ and the book Design Blended Learning.
