{"id":790,"date":"2018-11-05T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=790"},"modified":"2018-11-05T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:54:50","slug":"quick-reflection-blending-the-blended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/quick-reflection-blending-the-blended\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Reflection – Blending the Blended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not my 9x9x25 post this week, but I just read Blending the Blended by ProfLisak<\/a>, and was about to comment when I thought, \u2018hey, I can just blog a quick reflection and hopefully it\u2019ll ping back\u2019. Honestly, I\u2019ve been frustrated with blog commenting systems for a while now. Some require login, some eat my comments, so here\u2026I\u2019m reclaiming commenting.<\/p>\n

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One of those terms that gets thrown around in education quite a bit is blended learning<\/em>. It comes an an overwhelming varieties of course design and there are so many related terms (e.g. hybrid<\/em> learning<\/em>) that one can get lost in the literature quite quickly. I like the breakdown that ProfLisak provides in their post of their approach to what EDUCAUSE refers to as HyFlex<\/em><\/a>. I’m surprised to see the date of the CC license as 2010 because until today I’d never heard that term.<\/p>\n

What I had encountered before was a similar concept from University of Victoria’s very own Dr. Valerie Irvine. In 2012 (ish) I attended a plenary session of hers here at the UofS during a conference known as TLT (teaching and learning with technology). There she presented the concept of multi-access models <\/em>for learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Table 1. Matrix of learner access by course delivery mode by Irvine, Code, and Richards was published at JOLT<\/a> and is used here under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since seeing that presentation, and many others by Valerie and reading her work on the subject, I have been fascinated by the idea of designing courses with this kind of accessibility in mind. I had an opportunity on one project where a version of this model would have worked. We began the planning and development, but unfortunately I didn’t get to see that one through as I changed jobs in the middle of the project. I am still searching for examples of different course designs that are framed as multi-access. Do you know of any?<\/p>\n

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Feature Image: Figure 1. Tiers of the multi-access framework<\/em> by Irvine, Code, and Richards was published at JOLT<\/a> and is used here under a CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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