The SOTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Georgia Southern University, Stateboro, Georgia
March 10-12, 2010
Period for Submission of Proposals: August 15 - October 15, 2009
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Call for Papers Special Issue of a Sloan Consortium Journal:
"Blended (Hybrid) Learning at Small Colleges in the US."
Submissions are welcomed from teachers, administrators, and researchers at all levels. Papers (10-12 pages in length) are invited for a special issue of a Sloan-Consortium journal to be published in 2010, “Blended (Hybrid) Learning at Small Colleges in the US.” Join with Sloan-C to lead higher education in meeting social needs for affordable access, quality innovations, and teaching and learning excellence.
Email your interest by sending a summary proposal (roughly 1000 words) by November 1st, 2009 to Guest Editor Gouri Banerjee (banerjee@emmanuel.edu).
Selected authors will be notified in January 2010 and final papers due May 30, 2010.
Blended learning, also called hybrid learning, combines face-to-face classroom practices with online delivery. Most blended courses organize roughly one third or more of teaching and learning around online components - discussions, communication between faculty and students, delivery of course materials and assessments and grading. Small colleges (<4000 students), offering mostly baccalaureate degrees, are increasingly using blended learning. Do you teach in a small college offering blended (hybrid) courses?
Possible topics may include:
- Blended learning and its essential practices at your institution
- Comparisons of learning outcomes between blended, face-to-face or fully online courses
- What were the experiences with transitioning to blended learning?
- What special promises does blended learning hold for small colleges?
- Does your small college use blended learning for strategic purposes, to fulfill the college’s mission, for lack of funding for technology investments, or other reasons?
- What are faculty perspectives on face-to-face, blended, or distance learning at your small college?
- What student preferences are for blended, face-to-face and distance learning at your small college?
- What are the teaching and learning implications long term for blended courses at small colleges?
- Other aspects of blended learning in small colleges-evolution, adoption, barriers, etc.?
For more information, contact: Gouri Banerjee, Ph. D. Department of Math and Technology, Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. Email: banerjee@emmanuel.edu
or Anthony G. Picciano, PhD Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center - City University of New York, 365 Fifth Ave NYC, NY 10016 Email: anthony.picciano@hunter.cuny.edu