Blended learning often brings together a chaotic collection of classes, engagement, resources, activities, assessment, events, technologies, and support services. From a learner perspective, these can get quite overwhelming; from a teacher’s perspective, they can get extremely demanding; from an institutional perspective, it can be challenging.
Introducing: the Frankencourse.
Yes, yes, – it’s actually Frankenstein’s monster. And in the book he’s actually highly intelligent, just misunderstood. But the point here is, blended learning can often go this way: disjointed, unnatural, not pleasing to the eye. And, in existential crisis (as the monster was, in the book).
Blendagogy is the solution.
The Blendagogy Framework provides a means of describing a blended learning model using a proven framework – the six factors – in the context of an over-arching purpose – the four objectives. These are situated within the context of the three levels. The Blendagogy Framework enables you to reason with the monster, helping to better design blended models to be more coherent, enduring, and replicable. The Framework also gives pointers for institutions wanting to extend and support blended learning initiatives.
It’s all so much better, by design.
The Blendagogy: The art and science of blended learning design book contains 14 case studies from blended learning practitioners. No Frankencourses, but plenty of examples of design and description to help you to avoid them.
PDF here.
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