I'm very interested in finding some pre- university center that has a blended -learning model in Europe as part of the study in my doctoral thesis. I'll be very grateful if you have any reference .
Cordially,
Xavier
Hi Xavier!
I don't know exactly what is meant by "pre-university centers" in Catalonia, do you mean branch campuses, university colleges, multi-institutional campuses or community-driven learning centers?
Anyway, there are many universities that declare in policy that they have and develop blended learning, but mean slightly different things. Sometimes it is a reducing of seat time and a bigger online part instead, sometimes these go in parallel as in the Hy-Flex model, or as multi-access learning groups, or as flipped classroom concept or as simply lecture capture (can give refs if you want). Rather few European universities are declaring themselves as "blended learning universities", I think because European educational researchers often don't want to talk about ICT integration with these terms. But it lives under the surfafe,and if you have a wider definition of blended learning as "the ongoing integration of ICTs into the nornal education offerings", all universities do that in a myriad of ways. Anyway, in Sweden Karlstad university declares it implements "blended", other universiites do similar things but express them differently.
I think that for smaller educational environments, blended learning setups are very interesting, since they don't have all kinds of teachers and researchers on the spot, and also sometimes can't recruit full classes in x by their own. But I think it is a mistake to think of "blended learning" as half-distance learning, it is instead the beginning of something new and soon mainstream, a "new normal". I have some papers about and around this, see below if interested.
Article A time based blended learning model
Article Anders Norberg & Isa Jahnke (2014): “Are you Working in the ...
Dear Anders,
Firstly thank you for your response and your valuable contributions.
My concept of blended-learning covers various areas and realities: the duality between formal and informal education, and distance learning, content and competencies and modernized and humanised. You see then that the concept is very complex. Phase I study what Americans call high school and that Catalonia has a severe constraints that must prepare students for university entrance, that often prevents innovation and transformation.
I share your view that blended learning means (means) something new.
I keep in touch with you. I know the work of Anthony Picciano.
sincerely,
Xavier
Hi!
Yes, let´s keep in touch.
Besides Tony Picciano´s mentionned research group in New York, I appreciate very much and follow the RITE Center at University of Central Florida with researchers as Chuck Dziuban and Patsy Moskal and other - they have very interesting quantitative research with big data behind, and use that for qualitative purposes when discussing blended learning. Also check up UCF´s BlendKit course and "Blended learning toolkit". The research group around Charles Graham at Brigham Young university in Utah is also very interesting, they make among other things bibliographical studies on blended learning research. At Université Laval in Qubec City we have researchers that like me are specially interested in time and blended learning, as Michael Power and Margarida Romero.
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