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International Best Practices for Hybrid, Blended, and Online Learning

Darrell A. Luzzo, Ph.D.Laureate EducationOctober 8, 2015


Agenda

Brief Overview of Laureate Education, Inc.

The Promise of Digital Teaching and Learning

Best Practices in Digital Teaching and Learning


The History Of Laureate• Founded in 1999 as Sylvan

Learning Systems, Laureate has grown rapidly and has become the global leader in higher education institutions committed to providing high-quality higher education opportunities to people around the world.

• Universidad Europea Madrid (UEM) became the first Laureate university in 1999 and is now the largest private university in Spain

• Laureate continues to build and interconnect its global network across Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa


Laureate is the Leader in International Higher Education

1.1 million + students | 28 countries | 88 institutions


Responding to the new ways students are increasingly interacting with technologyPreparing students to succeed in the workplace by ensuring their acquisition of digital skills

Reaching students who otherwise might not have access to quality higher education

Meeting the unmet global need for higher education

The Promise of Digital Teaching and Learning


Best Practices in Digital Teaching and Learning

Pedagogy

FeedbackCommunity

Student Engagem

ent


Implementing

Appropriate Pedagogy

Empirical research in online learning supports core face-to-face pedagogical principles ✔ Online courses should provide good

support for student-to-student and student-to-content interactions

✔ Interactions should include cooperative and collaborative learning

✔ The instructor’s moderating role in guided discussions is of great importance

✔ Instructors should be able to provide timely, formative feedback

✔ Content provided should be visually engaging and interactive


Creating Community

The ability of faculty, particularly those teaching in a digital environment, to create a community of learners is essential

Establishing presence and rapport with students assists them in becoming actively and socially engaged learning community members

Social presence (i.e., the degree to which a person is perceived as a “real person” in mediated communication) is a significant factor in student retention

Authenticity is critical to creating effective learning communities


MaintainingStudent

EngagementSome effective practices for promoting student engagement:✔ Post a welcome message to

students that is motivating and energetic

✔ Respond to all student queries in a reasonable amount of time (e.g., within 24 hours)

✔ Ensure that all formative feedback is both encouraging and detailed

Based on research comparing online students to face-to-face students, students in online courses appear to be more reflective in their learning process; they spend more time preparing for the course and feel more connected to faculty.


Fostering Feedback Some effective feedback

practices:✔ Clarify what constitutes good

performance (goals, criteria, and expected standards)

✔ Deliver useful information to students about their learning

✔ Foster positive motivational beliefs and self-efficacy for learning

✔ Provide opportunities to close the gap between current and desired performance

Early forms of digital teaching and learning provided little opportunity for formative feedback, which provides guidance to students during the process of learning and is positively correlated with academic outcomes.


For More Information

Coming Soon: Laureate-Blackboard white paper exploring the myths and best practices in hybrid, blended, and online learning

Contact Me:Darrell A. Luzzo, Ph.D.Senior Vice PresidentEducational Product, Technology, and InnovationLaureate Education, [email protected]


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