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I’m pleased to annouce the release of the book Blendagogy: The art and science of blended learning design following this morning’s keynote at the FLANZ conference, held at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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.…

Blendagogy is …the art, science, or practice of combining educational activities for the purposes of student learning. Blends might be coherent, or discordant, depending on their design. Properly practiced, blendagogy seeks to optimise the actions of teaching toward more effective learning. The Blendagogy Framework is a design model for creating blended learning solutions. …blended models…