Blended Learning Guidance

An explanation of why online learning is different to classroom-based learning.

In December 2020 Teaching Academy ran it’s first Blended Learning Conference

As well as delivering the material and assessments, it is important that we ensure our teaching provides opportunities for all students to be successful on their programme, whatever their background and individual needs.

A knowledge of the way students learn can help us design effective courses and help us to advise and guide our students. While the literature on this topic is vast, there are a few key pieces of experimental work that everyone who designs or changes courses should know

The characteristics of effective feedback.

Advice and resources to support the design of course units.

Resources to support effective course delivery.

In this video James Brooks (Faculty Lead for Pedagogy) talks us through an example course structure.

In this video, Associate Vice Dean Steve Pettifer discusses how to create slides that work nicely with blended learning videos.

In this video, Faculty lead for Pedagogy James Brooks discusses the main differences between blended learning and the more traditional methods of delivery.