Recommended Book: Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-To-Face Instruction in Higher Education

Jason Allen Snart's book entitled Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education, examines the opportunities and challenges involved in combining online learning with face-to-face classroom instruction.

Hybrid learning, sometimes called blended learning, can provide both students and faculty with more flexibility in their schedules. But far more importantly, bringing elements of the face-to-face classroom together with online learning can take advantage of the strengths of each of those learning modes. The benefit can be better student engagement and retention, perennial problems across higher education.

This book provides a detailed exploration of a new learning mode that could radically change higher education, incorporating emerging trends in technology and multimedia use, including online gaming, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications, to create engaging and dynamic learning environments. Laying out fundamental challenges facing higher education today, the author demonstrates how hybrid instruction can be designed and implemented to deliver education in flexible modes well-suited to the circumstances of many students and institutions.
 
The chapters are as follows: The resistant early adopter; Challenges facing higher education; Going hybrid: the bigger picture; Hybrids: a cultural moment and its history; Hybrids in action; Technology: trending to community and collaboration; A resistant early adopter argues for hybridity.
Published on: 2010-06-30
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