Effective Pedagogical Practices in Blended Teaching: This area will focus on pedagogical approaches in successful blended learning courses that are learner-, knowledge-, assessment-, and community-centered, particularly on best practices for achieving the teaching and learning enhancements claimed for blended environments.

Strategic Institutional Approaches to Blended Learning: Recognizing that there is no ‘template' for transformation, campus leadership and various levels of administration need basic information, examples of successful strategies, risk and benefit analyses, and tools for successfully pursuing blended learning, particularly in meeting campus mission and goals.

In his concluding remarks to the workshop, Frank Mayadas, President of the Sloan Consortium, appreciated the forward momentum that the workshop generated, noting that blending is a fundamentally new paradigm. While we have researched the efficacy of face to face education for hundreds of years, and ALN for a decade, and have learned much about success in these modes, blending the two modes effectively is actually a new field. Institutions approach blended learning with a variety of outcomes in mind: some believe blending improves the quality of learning outcomes; some believe blending improves access to programs and resources; some believe blending offers cost efficiencies such as optimum use of physical space. Whatever the motivator, the quality principles—learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness and institutional commitment, access and faculty and student satisfaction—are the same. It is important to bring ALN and blended learning to the attention of senior leadership, engaging higher education in using a framework to collect and share data that will continuously improve quality, scale and breadth in