Elements of Quality Online Education cation

Using Blended Learning to Drive Faculty Development (And Vice Versa)USING BLENDED LEARNING TO DRIVEFACULTY DEVELOPMENT (AND VICE VERSA)George OtteThe City University of New York• The virtues of blended learning include convenience for students, expanded enrollments,physical plant efficiencies and community building.• Blending has a special virtue in involving mainstream faculty in online instruction, a criticalstep on the way to full integration of ALN in the academy.• Students registered higher levels of interaction and perceived learning in blended coursesthan in either classroom-based or fully online courses.• Faculty are being asked to change from modes of delivery that have proved successful forthem to modes they see as new and untried, and they are understandably reluctant.• Collaborative models for engaging faculty will work.71