Tag Archives: Blended Learning

Upcoming Event: Faculty Professional Development

By Michael Edwards | Published: September 15, 2009
I and a guest, Corinne Hoisington of Central Virginia Community College, are presenting this week to the Rhodes State faculty on technological tools they can use to enhance their classes and engage their students. Details below: Thursday, Sept 17, 2009 Tech Lab, Rooms 111 & 129 Rhodes State College Session 1: 9:00AM-NOON Lunch: Noon-1:00PM (Pizza in TL Lobby) [...]
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Sloan-C: Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry

By Michael Edwards | Published: April 27, 2009
Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry Karen Swan introduced Norm Vaughan (Mount Royal College) as he delivered an interactive workshop about blended learning across two sessions divided by a break.
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Sloan-C: Great Ideas series

By Michael Edwards | Published: April 27, 2009
Great Ideas series A series of short (10 minute) presentations of ideas and tools for blended learning.
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Sloan-C: Blending With Purpose

By Michael Edwards | Published: April 27, 2009
Blending With Purpose Anthony “Tony” G. Picciano facilitated a panel that included George Otte (City University of New York), Karen Vignare (Michigan State University) and Tony himself. Before the panel format began, Tony talked a bit about the emergence of blended/hybrid courses over the past 6 or 7 years. Tony had put together a multimodal model of [...]
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Sloan-C: Welcome & Introductions

By Michael Edwards | Published: April 27, 2009
Sloan-C Blended Workshop Mary Niemiec kicked things off at the 2009 Sloan-C Blended Workshop by speaking a bit about the evolution of blended learning. “When we first started it was an invited 30 people. Blended learning wasn’t well defined (hybrid? tech-advanced?).” “It took almost two years to agree on a common definition that seems to be permeating [...]
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  • About Me

    Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College.

    This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.