Posts tagged with “blended learning”

Innovation in education

By Harry Smals on 21 April 2011

Do you have any idea why higher education is still mainly delivered as classroom teaching? Most lecturers know that a lot more is possible and some of them even enrich classroom teaching with innovations such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and iTunes U. But knowing it is one thing, applying this knowledge is another thing. Why?

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Blended Learning starts with a Paperless Office

By Harry Smals on 25 January 2011

Good old PR guru Anne van der Meijden already said it over twenty years ago: good external communication starts with good internal communication. Meaning that building and maintaining a fruitful relationship with a target audience starts with building a coherent group of employees first. We can apply this on the relationship between lecturers and students.

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Lecturers & students: actors on a market

By Harry Smals on 7 November 2010

Most students are eager to learn. A school is a good place for that, because there are many lecturers who are eager to teach. Sounds like an ideal situation of actors who offer (lecturers) and demand (students) information, knowledge, experience and competences. But it isn’t.

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Who owns information?

By Harry Smals on 20 September 2010

Why is it that I like to download from YouTube? Since I have put RealPlayer on my computer it offers me to “Download This Video” every time I watch a video on YouTube or any other website.

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Competences, Blended Learning & Crossmedia

By Harry Smals on 25 May 2010

Competences are hot in Dutch higher education. But, what is a competence? It consists of three elements: knowledge, attitude and skills. These elements are very similar to the desired effects of influential communication. Crossmedia is vital in present days' influential communication. Therefore it seems logical that experts of crossmedia and experts of higher education can learn from each other. Crossmedia applied on education is called blended learning.

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