Handbook of Blended Learning

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!

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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. Bonk has more than one hundred publications in topics related to e-learning, collaborative technologies, and Web-based pedagogy and evaluation. 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.

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THE HANDBOOK OF BLENDED LEARNING The Handbook of Blended Learning (HOBLe) offers a comprehensive resource that highlights the most recent practices and trends in blended learning from a global perspective and provides targeted information for specific blended learning situations. The book provides examples of learning options that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning in both the workplace as well as more formal academic settings. Across these environments, The HOBLe focuses on real-world blended learning practices. The authors provide an important resource for the providers of adult learning to better understand the wide range of possibilities available when designing blended learning environments. The Handbook of Blended Learning provides direction where blended learning may find effective application in online environments within higher education as well as corporate and military training. To address the diversity of readers, The HOBLe 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. The HOBLe is filled with illustrative and interesting stories, models, and examples that can help foster intelligent decisions regarding blended learning across a wide variety of settings. "Learn from successful blended applications that deal with a broad range of educational and training contexts through innovative methods."
—Michael W. Allen, author, Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning, and CEO, Allen Interactions Inc. "The landscape of blended learning is intriguing, exciting, and perilous. Thank you, Curt and Charles, for assembling this wonderful group of thought leaders and pioneers, organizing their provocative outputs, providing a functional prologue and epilogue, and developing this comprehensive handbook."
—Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Thiagi Group, and author, Design Your Own Games and Training Activities "Invaluable for any educator seeking to understand the design, implementation, and study of next-generation learning experiences."
—Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Filled with insight and lessons learned from some of the most experienced online and in-person educators in the workplace and higher education!"
—Zane L. Berge, associate professor, University of Maryland, System Campus

Inhalt
Forewords xvii
Jay Cross, Michael G. Moore

Preface and Acknowledgments xxxi
Curtis J. Bonk, Charles R. Graham

Part One: Introduction to Blended Learning 1

1 Blended Learning Systems: Definition, Current Trends, and Future Directions 3
Charles R. Graham

2 The Blended Learning Imperative 22
Elliott Masie

3 Why Blended Learning Hasn't (Yet) Fulfilled Its Promises: Answers to Those Questions That Keep You Up at Night 27
Jennifer Hofmann

4 On Designing Interaction Experiences for the Next Generation of Blended Learning 41
Ellen D. Wagner

Part Two: Corporate Blended Learning Models and Perspectives 57

5 Blending Learning for Business Impact: IBM's Case for Learning Success 61
Nancy J. Lewis, Peter Z. Orton

6 A Learning Ecology Model for Blended Learning from Sun Microsystems 76
Mike S. Wenger, Chuck Ferguson

7 Putting Customers First at Microsoft: Blending Learning Capabilities with Customer Needs 92
Lutz Ziob, Bob Mosher

8 Transformation of Sales Skills Through Knowledge Management and Blended Learning 105
Alan G. Chute, J. O. David Williams, Burton W. Hancock

9 The Cisco Networking Academy: A Model for the Study of Student Success in a Blended Learning Environment 120
Alan Dennis, Barbara Bichelmeyer, Dan Henry, Hasan Cakir, Ali Korkmaz, Carol Watson, JoAnne Bunnage

10 To Blend or Not to Blend: A Look at Community Development via Blended Learning Strategies 136
Kirsten S. Hanson, Frances A. Clem

Part Three: Higher Education Blended Learning Models and Perspectives 151

11 Global Perspectives on Blending Learning: Insight from WebCT and Our Customers in Higher Education 155
Barbara Ross, Karen Gage

12 New Zealand Examples of Blended Learning 169
Noeline Wright, Ross Dewstow, Mark Topping, Sue Tappenden

13 E-College Wales, a Case Study of Blended Learning 182
Norah Jones

14 Blended Learning Enters the Mainstream 195
Charles Dziuban, Joel Hartman, Frank Juge, Patsy Moskal, Steven Sorg

15 Integrated Field Experiences in Online Teacher Education: A Natural Blend? 209
Thomas Reynolds, Cathleen Greiner

Part Four: For-Profit and Online University Perspectives 221

16 Blended Learning at the University of Phoenix 223
Brian Lindquist

17 A Different Perspective on Blended Learning: Asserting the Efficacy of Online Learning at Capella University 235
Michael Offerman, Christopher Tassava

18 Blended Learning Goes Totally Virtual by Design: The Case of a For-Profit, Online University 245
Pamela S. Pease

Part Five: Cases of Blended Learning In Higher Education From Around the World 261

19 Blended Learning in Japan and Its Application in Liberal Arts Education 267
Insung Jung, Katsuaki Suzuki

20 The Emergence of the Cyber-University and Blended Learning in Korea 281
Okhwa Lee, Yeonwook Im

21 Designing Blended Learning Focused on Knowledge Category and Learning Activities: Case Studies from Beijing Normal University 296
Ronghuai Huang, Yueliang Zhou

22 Open Distance Pedagogy: Developing a Learning Mix for the Open University Malaysia 311
Abtar Kaur, Ansary Ahmed

23 Blending On and Off Campus: A Tale of Two Cities 325
Geraldine Lefoe, John G. Hedberg

24 Blended Learning at Canadian Universities: Issues and Practices 338
Ronald D. Owston, D. Randy Garrison, Kathryn Cook

25 Tecnológico de Monterrey in México: Where Technology Extends the Classroom 351
Alejandro Acuña Limón

26 From Analog to Weblog: The Community College Evolution Toward Blended Learning 360
Paul A. Elsner 27 Virtual TAU: Th...