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Instructors Role In Blended Learning
By Allison Rossett
Blended Learning How We
Change What We Do - Originally distributed
LearningCircuits.org
Article excerpt - "In a blended learning system, instructor-led instruction is one way to teach, but certainly not the only way. When a blend is in place, instructors do more than stand and deliver. Through online systems, they might monitor and nudge employees’ progress and persistence."
Training Department promotes blended learning with our online software. We feel that online instructors help to make e-learning solutions more effective if they are included in course development, student administration and student communications.
Or they might update an e-learning module, deliver a synchronous class, record a podcast, moderate a discussion board, coach managers, offer feedback on a group or individual task, analyze workplace readiness, and post answers to frequently asked questions. Instructors come to see themselves as more than instructors. Perhaps a good way to describe the change is from delivery in a set time and place to delivery of their expertise in many places and many ways.For some instructors, the play is the thing. They love to command the classroom. ... Blended learning allows them to retain the stage, but expects that they will also propel their expertise and experience beyond four walls.
Online instructors work differently than traditional classroom instructors. Sometimes online instruction teams are created including professional online training instructors and a subject matter experts. If online instructors use e-training and other technology to address the different learning methods and provide multiple methods to get the message across - then technology is truly a useful tool.
It isn’t just employees, supervisors, and executives who must change. Blending, of course, means changes for workforce learning professionals too. Some admit that these expectations are daunting.
Let’s look first at some obvious new expectations, such as acquisition, creation, and update of diverse assets. Next, there is the press to leverage technologies in many ways, including how to keep track of individual participation in experiences that happen everywhere, all the time.
Training Department has focused on creating an e-learning solution that is easy to use; easy to develop courseware, easy to administer classes and students, easy to communicate with the class and of course easy to track individual student's progress.
Consider that blended learning involves orchestration of many programs, people, and relationships—not just classes. Before blended learning, a learning specialist might worry about three-ring binders. With a blended approach, attention moves to online assets, podcasts, diagnostic assessments, knowledge bases, and guidance systems, to name a few possibilities. Before, the focus was on learners and instructors. Where a training manager once worried about getting the right instructor scheduled into a room, now the concern is what the instructor thinks about their expertise, to her willingness to put wheels on that expertise and make it available in many ways. Now, attention is on more illusive forms of tracking and evaluation, in which technology is used to ask fewer, more frequent questions that gauge engagement, use, and usefulness.
Blended learning is the strategy that will help make your e-training program successful. Training Department's online software is the solution to help facilitate your classes and electronic communications. Subject Matter Experts can participate with the communications and provide valuable information that can make the courses even more effective. Managers or supervisor can be part of the team as well to help ensure that the materials are relevant as well as to monitor employee training & work progress. Employee roles impact the sucess of the class as well - we see more success when our student administration features are utilized.
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Allison Rossett is a member of ASTD's Board of Directors and a professor of educational technology at San Diego State University. . Allison's email for contact..