Blended Learning Solutions in Higher Education

History, Theory and Practice

Neil Hughes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040117156
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Blended Learning Solutions in Higher Education explores the origins, empirical foundations, and implementation of blended learning in colleges and universities. Since emerging as a third-way solution to traditional and virtual higher education models, blended learning has become a predominant learning modality in an era of rapid technological proliferation. Offering an alternative to longstanding yet flawed methodologies and assumptions about its validity, this book conceptualizes blended learning as a complex social practice mediated by knowledge, institutional rules, policies, and norms as well as material factors such as technology and physical spaces. The book's original MIRACLE framework offers a research-grounded, highly practical guide to blended learning design, improvement, and long-term efficacy. From demystified history and heuristics to digitized platforms and course content to reimagined governance and regulations, these insights provide a thoughtful exemplar of blended learning's challenges and affordances along with a firm basis for integrating face-to-face and online learning, teaching, and assessment innovatively and creatively.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the author
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Blended learning: The evidence
• 3 The rise of the virtual universities
• 4 The new kid on the block: Blended learning
• 5 Blended learning as a complex social practice
• 6 Effective blended learning design: The MIRACLE model
• Index