Today as a group we had a look at some case studies in Blended Learning.
I had a chance to read two articles and then listen to my classmates present their own readings. They were all taken from this book:
The first one I read was about the challenges a teacher in Istanbul faced when asked to provide a tailored course for taxi drivers with literally no material at hand.
His solution, which I think was brilliant, was to brainstorm possible questions he might ask taxi drivers and get the students build on this and record themselves during their idle time. Very little time was thus devoted to grammar explanations, and the drivers could focus solely on the language they needed and the emerging language.
Using a 'normalised' technology + podcasting. Voilà.
The second article I analysed talked about the way a teacher training center - again in Istanbul - used moodle to deliver the content of the Cambridge DELTA module ONE online. The challenge here was to cater for different necessities and levels of digital proficiency, but what was found was that in reality most students are rather satisfied by this blended delivery model and usually ask for more content to be put it.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to continue reading this book because it offers a wide spectrum of compelling cases and I recommend you do the same if you're interested.
I had a chance to read two articles and then listen to my classmates present their own readings. They were all taken from this book:
The first one I read was about the challenges a teacher in Istanbul faced when asked to provide a tailored course for taxi drivers with literally no material at hand.
His solution, which I think was brilliant, was to brainstorm possible questions he might ask taxi drivers and get the students build on this and record themselves during their idle time. Very little time was thus devoted to grammar explanations, and the drivers could focus solely on the language they needed and the emerging language.
Using a 'normalised' technology + podcasting. Voilà.
The second article I analysed talked about the way a teacher training center - again in Istanbul - used moodle to deliver the content of the Cambridge DELTA module ONE online. The challenge here was to cater for different necessities and levels of digital proficiency, but what was found was that in reality most students are rather satisfied by this blended delivery model and usually ask for more content to be put it.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to continue reading this book because it offers a wide spectrum of compelling cases and I recommend you do the same if you're interested.
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