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Combining computer-based
and face to face learning can provide opportunities to improve
learning.
Potential benefits include:
- greater access to a range of appropriate, personalized and
individualized learning, teaching, and resources
- greater
accommodation for learners and teachers of diverse ages,
styles, expertise, nationalities and cultures, who can
connect
from multiple settings such as homes, workplaces, libraries,
countries and more
- greater flexibility and cost effectiveness in terms of
mission, scalability, breadth, time, value and infrastructure,
and
- greater student and faculty satisfaction
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Principle 1:Begin with a shared
vision of how technology can improve teaching and learning.
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Encourage enterprise-wide collaboration
to focus on benefits for teachers and learners.
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Engage collaborators from various
departments and disciplines, including learners, to articulate
common and specialized learning goals, methods, and assessments.
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Aim to create a common language
among constituents.
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Principle 2: Develop efficiencies
in cost and scalability.
- Schedule for capacity enrollment
(prime time classes can meet less often, so there can be more
of them).
- Build learning object libraries to enable learners to review
on demand and to reduce duplicative e workload of individual
instructors/staff.
- Create institutional teaching-learning portfolios (program,
department, degree and so on) for visibility to constituents
and to the public,
employers, potential partners, and accreditation and funding
agencies.
- Engage in partnerships with other institutions by sharing
curricula and other resources, e.g. online components can be
shared among
institutions anywhere, with f2f meetings for collocated groups.
- Enable guest access to curricula for the general public, parents,
significant others, potential employers, alumni, and more as
part of the “branding,” marketing, fundraising and
recruitment efforts of the institution.
- Develop economies of scale (such as system-wide site licenses,
help-desks, reusable learning repositories, and multi-institutional
partnerships).
Principle 3: Identify ways
to meet the needs of individual learners. [2]:
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Initially assess each
student’s knowledge/skill level
and preferred learning style.
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Provide an array of high-quality, interactive
learning materials and activities .
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Individualize study plans.
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Use built-in, continuous assessment to
provide instantaneous feedback Offer
appropriate, varied
kinds of human interaction when needed.
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