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Blended learning in East China Normal University

Co-organisers:

Xiaoqing Gu

[email protected]

Outline

•Profile of ECNU

•Existing situation of blended learning in ECNU

•Blended learning strategies of ECNU

• Issues and challenges of blended learning

•Future directions

June 3-5, 2015 Expert Meeting 2015Building the Capacity of Higher Education Institutions in Asia-Pacific for Blended Learning

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Profile of ECNU

June 3-5, 2015 3Expert Meeting 2015Building the Capacity of Higher Education Institutions in Asia-Pacific for Blended Learning

• Founded in Shanghai in October 1951

• With two campuses located in Minhang and Putuo District


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East China Normal University


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ECNU has long been reputed as a "Garden University" for its beautiful campus scenes.


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At present, we has 21 schools and colleges, and 5 advanced research institutes

58 departments offering 70 undergraduate programs, in humanities, education, science, engineering, economics, management, philosophy, psychology, law, history and art

Over 4,000 faculty and staff, more than 1,200 are professors and associate professors, including 14 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Currently, the number of full-time undergraduate students is about 14,000 while that of graduate students is 12,000. There are also over 3,700 international students studying at ECNU.


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You can know all about us from Website http://www.ecnu.edu.cn/

Existing situation of blended learning in ECNU


Existing situation of blended learning in ECNU


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Situation in Sakai: 327 courses ，172 teachers， 7849 participants(Data from Network & Information Center in ECNU)

sakai.ecnu.edu.cn


Early adopters and the cases

① Platform : Able

Course：Introduction To Planet Earth

Case 1


The reason for blended learning:

Lack of class time(36 hours for 108 hours course contents)

Features of the subject: need various types of resources that go beyond traditional classroom


② Platform : Moodle


③Platform: Moodle + English learning system

Background information

Faculty: Department of College English

Course: College English

Target audience: More than 6000 undergraduate students, 2000 postgraduate students


The reason for blended learning:

Students from different discipline vary in learning habits and performance

Self-directed learning

Teacher support


Students’ feedback after Blended learning

The distance education programs

A total enrollment of 20 thousands of online students (19 Undergraduate prom. +9 semi-undergraduate prom.)

Case 2


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The distance education:

Part-time

Self-regulated online learning

Face to face coaching + teacher-student online interaction


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Case 3

The program adopted ：

Online course (each semester)

Face to face education(summer vacation)

The Master of Education program

• Synchronous Learning in different classes

• Multimodal interaction（video+audio+text）

• All kinds of application sharing

• The integration of electronic whiteboard

• Automatically generate resources

• Sharing the resources between the two campuses

Connected open classesCase 4

Blended learning strategies of ECNU



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ECNU on Cloud

Service公益服务社会服务援边

社区教学服务……

ServiceERP教务信息管理

学生生活信息管理校园楼宇管理网络设备管理

软件智能系统管理

ERP

数据收集数据分析软件支持数据共享/可视化协作研究共同体数字实验室共享

成果发布

E-researchSocial

师生交流留学生交流校友会公益活动休闲娱乐

……

Social

E-learningE-content

MOOC

E-learning

CommunityCloud

Our vision and mission

Public Cloud

ERP learning research service social

教师信息数据课程信息数

据学生事务数据

库教学资源库校园管理数据

Community Cloud

智能管理系统

网络教学平台

云服务集群

校园信息化平台

SMRAT教室数字图书馆

数据层面

应用层面

Smart环境

ECNU

网络存储虚拟主机

Infrastructure

……

……


数字化课程资源中心

数字化课程资源数字化课程资源

应用与管理数字化校园

学科教学课程资源

精品课程资源

国际合作教育项目的课程资源

其他专项课程资源管理与维护

协调知识产权与资源的共享

应用推进机制

资源建设与应用服务统一身份认证

与公共数据库系统的整合

教务处选课系统提供

访问接口

数字化教学平台

学生电子档案袋系统提供

访问接口

系统之间的互联互通、数据资源共享

The center of digital course resource

数字化校园基础设施

万兆以太网无线网络数字电话

VPN服务器广域网DNS负载均衡

上网行为管理系统电子邮件系统教师个人主页

数字化课程资源中心应用系统

数据仓库和数据挖掘系统

统一身份认证统一身份认证

数据交换

系统整合

数字化教学

课程资源建设

资源应用与管理

公共数据库应用系统

校园卡系统

数据交换数据交换

学校主页

Technological resources

learning management

system,

Online expert

consultation

courseware

development tool,

search engine, social

software

Television broadcast,

Internet, ProjectorContent-free

electronic library，personalized information

push service

Content management

system

DVDContent-alterable

evaluation system,

FAQ, embedded help

system

Courseware,

disciplinary

knowledge platform

electronic dictionaryContent-specific

ServicesToolsMedia/Equip.form

content

The integration of resources environment

个人信息维护

学习相关

个人资料学业内容相关个人技能所获荣誉住宿信息

……

选课课程信息课程资源问答区

订阅学习资料

社交生活

勤工助学类技能提升类班级活动社团活动留学生交流公益服务

ECNU on Cloud

学生

教师

管理者

个人信息维护

个人信息资料教授学科信息科研情况

联系方式最新研究动态

……

教学事务

课程信息课程资源制作师生交流区教学反馈区教学技能培训

教学技术应用咨询

研究事务

研究成果区课题信息展示

数据分析与处理研究共同体讨论与交流

社交活动

与在校生的交流教学同行交流科研同行交流公益服务

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管理相关决策

学生生活管理教师教学协调教学评价管理校园楼宇管理网络设备管理

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课程设置/安排教学资源建设学生发展规划教师培训规划学校发展规划

……

Teacher and student support

Social life and service


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Official Wechat


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APP


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Microblog


课程资源中心

课程资源发布

课程资源检索

教学与科研

师生互动

教学评估

学习

课程资源检索

教学互动

小组讨论

教学评估

课程管理

课程展示

资源共享

国际合作

交流展示

Teacher and student support

curriculum and assessment

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Project-based learning

Flipped classroom

Formative evaluation

Goal of blended learning

•tap the best aspects of both face to face and online instruction.

•Classroom time can be used to engage students in advanced interactive experiences.

•The online portion of the course can provide students with multimedia-rich content at any time of day, anywhere the student has internet access.


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Project-based learning

Understanding goals

Planning and Design

Discussion and Communicate

Constructing test

Analysis illustration

Presentation and sharing

Problem learning

Describing problems

Establishinghypothesis

Planning research

Implementingresearch

Analysis result

Sharingoutcome

Must know

Must do

Research study of group cooperation


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Formative evaluation

Development tendency: Expository Teaching to Exploratory Learning

Answer

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Answer

defined Well-structured Meso-structured Ill-structured

Expository

Exploratory

Note: 中构问题- Semi or moderately structured problem

Issues and challenges of blended learning

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How do we measure engagement?

• Quantitatively by increased attendance

• Student opinion data

• Qualitatively by curiosity for more information

• Willingness to 'extra' classes

• Increased motivation, enthusiasm and involvement

• Increased focus on tasks

Does a blended course create a better student learning experience?

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• Not just scores, but connectedness to school ？

• Community involvement & social competencies？

• Positive impact on further study and employment？

• Enjoyment of learning ？

How do we measure success?

Future directions


The future development strategy：

• Resource-based self-guided learning + standardized instruction

• Adaptability evaluation+ Personalized Learning Service

The types of learning mode:

• Differentiated instruction （+Online Tutoring ）

• Group cooperation research study

• Expansive learning of personal interest

• The generative learning of network society


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Thank you!


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