Blended Learning Resources

Fundamentals of Blended Learning

• What is Blended Learning at UWS? (PDF, 105.62 KB) (opens in a new window) This resource outlines what a blended or hybrid unit may include in a face-to-face environment along with equivalent blended learning options.
• Fundamentals of Blended Learning (PDF, 1437.38 KB) (opens in a new window) (IBOOKS, 13968.65 KB) - explores a variety of learning and teaching strategies to design and develop a unit with a blended learning focus.

Designing for Learning

• A Blended Learning Plan for 2013 (PDF, 442.52 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Designing your Unit for Blended Learning (PDF, 96.49 KB) (opens in a new window). This practical resource identifies the key steps involved in designing for blended learning. It includes a table outlining key questions for consideration when designing for blended learning.
• The UWS Summer UNit SEssion (SUNSET) Model - provides a template approach to designing Summer 1, 2 and 3.

Blended Learning Standards

• Basic Standards for E-Learning Sites (PDF, 834.6 KB) (opens in a new window) The E-learning Basic Standards are designed to enable all Instructors of a vUWS site. It provides a framework which focuses on technological and design aspects, to assist in reviewing and improving unit and hub sites.
• Advanced Standards for Blended Learning (PDF, 289.5 KB) (opens in a new window). This booklet focuses on four key standards centring on student centred pedagogical principles and the appropriate selection of ICT technologies to enhance the student learning experience.

Guides to good teaching practices

• A Guide for Using Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (PDF, 445.77 KB) (opens in a new window). A visual guide in the application of Bloom's Taxonomy with a focus on the use of ICT's to facilitate student learning.
• A Guide to Good Teaching Practice (PDF, 526.9 KB) (opens in a new window). Adapted from the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education, this guide outlines teaching and learning strategies which can be used to achieve each of the seven principles and aligns ICT’s to support the achievement of these strategies.
• Seven Principles Tool Guide for vUWS (PDF, 621.4 KB) (opens in a new window). This guide will assist you to select the most appropriate vUWS tool to achieve each of the seven principles for good Practice in undergraduate education.
• Examples of learning and teaching strategies when using social media (JPG, 866.11 KB) (opens in a new window) - An infographic examining the use of social media platforms with a learning and teaching focus.

Support in blended learning

• Landscape for BL Support at UWS (PDF, 462.85 KB) (opens in a new window). A visual guide to the support available for Blended Learning at UWS.
• vUWS Information for Staff Site (opens in a new window) (vUWS login required). How-to-guides for using vUWS tools to support blended learning strategies.