Overview
The Making Blended Education Work Short Course from The University of Edinburgh key facts:
On this self-directed course, you’ll explore emerging practices in blended learning and get introduced to a maturity model developed in a partnership of seven European higher education organisations.
You’ll work through debates related to the conceptualisation and practice of blended learning, as well as examples of blended designs at course, programme, and institutional level.
This Making Blended Education Work course at The University of Edinburgh offers a platform to share your experience of blended learning, evaluate and advance the maturity of your blended learning practices, and innovate blended learning methods in the wider context of digital transformation.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Describe and critically discuss the conceptualisation of blended education
- Apply key principles of blended learning for programme/course design
- Assess and analyse the benefits and challenges of blended education
- Evaluate the quality of blended education
- Demonstrate critical understanding of the relationship between beliefs and practice in blended learning and teaching
Programme Structure
Courses include:
This course will:
- Introduce concepts of blended learning, blended teaching, and blended education
- Introduce a reference model to assess the maturity of blended learning practices in course, programme, and institution levels at higher education
- Include topics that look into critical dimensions of blended learning, such as relations between beliefs and practice, institutional culture and leadership, and post-digital thinking.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 2 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
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Delivered
Campus Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Education Educational Research View 95 other Short Courses in Education in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This is an Introductory course therefore no previous knowledge is required.
Tuition Fee
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International
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 GBP for the full programme during 1 months. -
National
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 GBP for the full programme during 1 months.
- Free, with option to upgrade for a certificate