Presenters:

                            Ed Dixon                                                                                        Becky Moulder

Technology Director, Penn Language Center                             Courseware Instructional Designer, Penn Libraries

Description:

Join us for the first of a three-part series on blended learning. Participants will learn strategies to purposefully balance online and face-to-face instruction by applying the principles of backward design and task-based learning. Using overarching course goals as a starting point, participants will begin defining the application of blended learning principles to their unique context. 

Workshop Learning Objectives:

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

1. Define blended learning in your own words.
2. Articulate an initial vision for blended learning by defining a specific learning goal or overarching course outcome.
3. Identify a type of technology and how you would use it to meet the learning objective in a task-based teaching sequence.

Skills, concepts, or competencies this workshop delivers:

• Theoretical frameworks of how people learn

Audience:

This workshop is intended for:

• Faculty 
• TAs
• Staff who provide pedagogical and/or technological support for instructors or TAs

Pre-Workshop Information:

• Participants will be offered access to supplemental materials in Canvas on blended learning.

This session is the first in a three-workshop series on blended learning. It will be followed by:

• Workshop #2: Mixing It Up with Tech: Turning a Course Activity into a Blended Learning Experience (DigPed 002)
• Workshop #3: Leveraging Classroom Spaces for Active, Collaborative Learning (DigPed 003)

Note: Participants are encouraged, but not required, to complete each of the three workshops and their corresponding online components.