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Summary
Summary
This comprehensive resource highlights the most recent practices and trends in blended learning from a global perspective and provides targeted information for specific blended learning situations. You'll find examples of learning options that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning in the workplace, more formal academic settings, and the military. Across these environments, the book focuses on real-world practices and includes contributors from a broad range of fields including trainers, consultants, professors, university presidents, distance-learning center directors, learning strategists and evangelists, general managers of learning, CEOs, chancellors, deans, and directors of global talent and organizational development. This diversity and breadth will help you understand the wide range of possibilities available when designing blended learning environments. Order your copy today!
Author Notes
Curtis J. Bonk, Ph.D., is professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University and president of SurveyShare, Inc. He is also a senior research fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, D.C.
Charles R. Graham, Ph.D., is assistant professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University with an interest in collaborative face-to-face and online learning environments
Table of Contents
Forewords | p. xvii |
Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xxxi |
Part 1 Introduction to Blended Learning | p. 1 |
1 Blended Learning Systems: Definition, Current Trends, and Future Directions | p. 3 |
2 The Blended Learning Imperative | p. 22 |
3 Why Blended Learning Hasn't (Yet) Fulfilled Its Promises: Answers to Those Questions That Keep You Up at Night | p. 27 |
4 On Designing Interaction Experiences for the Next Generation of Blended Learning | p. 41 |
Part 2 Corporate Blended Learning Models and Perspectives | p. 57 |
5 Blending Learning for Business Impact: IBM's Case for Learning Success | p. 61 |
6 A Learning Ecology Model for Blended Learning from Sun Microsystems | p. 76 |
7 Putting Customers First at Microsoft: Blending Learning Capabilities with Customer Needs | p. 92 |
8 Transformation of Sales Skills Through Knowledge Management and Blended Learning | p. 105 |
9 The Cisco Networking Academy: A Model for the Study of Student Success in a Blended Learning Environment | p. 120 |
10 To Blend or Not to Blend: A Look at Community Development via Blended Learning Strategies | p. 136 |
Part 3 Higher Education Blended Learning Models and Perspectives | p. 151 |
11 Global Perspectives on Blending Learning: Insight from WebCT and Our Customers in Higher Education | p. 155 |
12 New Zealand Examples of Blended Learning | p. 169 |
13 E-College Wales, a Case Study of Blended Learning | p. 182 |
14 Blended Learning Enters the Mainstream | p. 195 |
15 Integrated Field Experiences in Online Teacher Education: A Natural Blend? | p. 209 |
Part 4 For-Profit and Online University Perspectives | p. 221 |
16 Blended Learning at the University of Phoenix | p. 223 |
17 A Different Perspective on Blended Learning: Asserting the Efficacy of Online Learning at Capella University | p. 235 |
18 Blended Learning Goes Totally Virtual by Design: The Case of a For-Profit, Online University | p. 245 |
Part 5 Cases of Blended Learning in Higher Education from Around the World | p. 261 |
19 Blended Learning in Japan and Its Application in Liberal Arts Education | p. 267 |
20 The Emergence of the Cyber-University and Blended Learning in Korea | p. 281 |
21 Designing Blended Learning Focused on Knowledge Category and Learning Activities: Case Studies from Beijing Normal University | p. 296 |
22 Open Distance Pedagogy: Developing a Learning Mix for the Open University Malaysia | p. 311 |
23 Blending On and Off Campus: A Tale of Two Cities | p. 325 |
24 Blended Learning at Canadian Universities: Issues and Practices | p. 338 |
25 Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico: Where Technology Extends the Classroom | p. 351 |
26 From Analog to Weblog: The Community College Evolution Toward Blended Learning | p. 360 |
27 Virtual TAU: The Study of a Campuswide Implementation of Blended Learning in Tel-Aviv University | p. 374 |
28 Management Education for the Twenty-First Century | p. 387 |
29 Blended Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics at the University of Pretoria | p. 400 |
Part 6 Multinational Blended Learning Perspectives | p. 417 |
30 The Integration of Learning Technologies into Europe's Education and Training Systems | p. 419 |
31 Developing an Understanding of Blended Learning: A Personal Journey Across Africa and the Middle East | p. 432 |
32 Blended E-learning in the Context of International Development: Global Perspectives, Local Design of e-Courses | p. 444 |
Part 7 Workplace, On-Demand, and Authentic Learning | p. 459 |
33 Putting Blended Learning to Work | p. 461 |
34 Blending Learning and Work: Real-Time Work Flow Learning | p. 474 |
35 On-Demand Learning: How Work-Embedded Learning Is Expanding Enterprise Performance | p. 491 |
36 Creating Authentic Learning Environments Through Blended Learning Approaches | p. 502 |
Part 8 Future Trends in Blended Learning | p. 517 |
37 Blended Learning in Military Training | p. 519 |
38 Expanding the Boundaries of Blended Learning: Transforming Learning with Mixed and Virtual Reality Technologies | p. 533 |
39 Future Directions of Blended Learning in Higher Education and Workplace Learning Settings | p. 550 |
Name Index | p. 569 |
Subject Index | p. 575 |