Designing blended learning communities

Liping Deng, Allan H.K. Yuen

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    Abstract

    This chapter seeks to highlight the unique characteristics of blended learning communities and the special design consideration they call for. The blended nature of a community is reflected through the interplay of the online and offline dimensions of a community and the mix of various media in support of community-wide interaction. The authors introduce the notion of blended learning community based on related literature on learning community and blended learning and put forward design guidelines for building such communities. Further, a pilot study was conducted to test out the proposed design principles in the context of pre-service teacher education with blogs as the main vehicle for online communication. The authors work can contribute to a deepened understanding of learning communities situated in the blended media environment and provide a set of design principles for their development.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHandbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models
    Subtitle of host publicationAdvanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications
    EditorsFu Lee Wang, Joseph Fong, Reggie Kwan
    PublisherIGI Global
    Pages228-243
    Number of pages16
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9781605663814
    ISBN (Print)9781605663807, 1605663808
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2009

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