An Appropriate New Blended Learning Approach?
Click through from this link to the full article about efforts at the University of California, Merced, to offer a course ("Introduction to Earth Systems Science") that provides an interesting new blend of approaches - e-book and live lab. Students work through a chapter in their multimedia e-book, then follow this up with a live in-lab experience where they can take part in relevant reinforcement activities. Each lesson, in the e-book, comes with a self-test. Seems the only thing missing is learning reinforcement tactics (e.g., Mind Marker - www.mindmarker.com) and social case/scenario explorations (e.g., Case Swarm - www.caseswarm.com).