Completed a short group interview towards the end of last week. This was really interesting as we have adopted an approach to learning sessions which uses a basic structure which is shown below:
There is a
pre-session
PowerPoint online which allows students to effectively patch in to an online lecture. As a result this has been completed before they come to the F2F session. This leads to a use of social and/or active learning as soon as they arrive for the session. As a result, the whole of the F2F session is given over to a number of
different activities from discussions as a whole group to simulations, group work, and resource development and production.
After the sessions, there are personal learning units which the students can complete if they want to take their
studies further in that
particular area, giving them the opportunity to
specialise and reflect to a greater depth on areas that they feel are important or which they are interested in.
This has led to a developing community of inquiry, and appears to work in a very similar way to the
approach to blended learning advocated by Garrison and Vaughan in
Blended Learning in Higher Education
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