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Jill Kraynek
How to convert Face-to-Face to blended for Repeatable and Improving
Training
Congratulations for doing your research to find that a blended model of learning is often
more powerful than the individual pieces (CastaoMuoz, Duart, & SanchoVinuesa,
2014). Now comes the harder part. What do you do? How do you do it? How to do it
Step-by-Step
Remember why you chose to blend your learning. Was it to ease scheduling woes in
your company? To speed delivery? To increase the amount of content covered? To
alleviate burdens on the company when the entire workforce is in training? Stay
focused on the goal and design with it in mind.
Find the software limitations. Dont run so many programs that it slows down and forces
videos to pixilate or crash. Conversely, remember to push the boundaries of the
technology. The technology makes the lesson come alive, use it to its fullest.
How are you doing it? Several tips for starting out
Tip 1 Think about the end result, start with small steps.
Explanation The end result may be fully flipped and 100% online or it may be blended
with online materials. What is the goal? Aim for the goal but understand it
will happen in phases. It is often too big of a job and will need a learning
curve to find the best style for the course.
Example As in gymnastics, we learn to crawl, then walk, then summersault, then
cartwheel, then back handspring, then back tuck, then, Add difficulty as
you master a task.
How to do it Step-by-Step
1. Analyze the needs of the learners. How is this going to improve their learning?
Change should not just be for the sake of change. It should improve the
experience and the learning.
2. Set criteria for the type of technology needed. What types of experiences are
planned for this course? Will they be primarily video or will there be coding,
typing or researching?
3. Analyze the technologies available to meet the needs. Which devices best
match your needs? Determine which platform is best. Do you need IPads?
Chromebooks? Laptops? Is durability most important or battery life? Should it
run Windows or HTML5? Is cost a limiting factor? (What Is Successful
Technology Integration?, 2007)
4. Choose the technology. It may not meet all your needs but it should match
best of the choices that are available.
8. Be prepared to train the trainers. Trainers are not all familiar with the
technology and how to present in an online environment. They will need support
to feel comfortable and efficient. They will need to encourage online discussion
to continue thoughts and promote conversation and buy-in. Student engagement
and satisfaction both increase when blogs or discussion boards are used thereby
limiting the isolation and dissatisfaction that lead to learners not completing the
training (Dai, 2007).
9. Be prepared to train the learners. This may be the first time the learners have
been expected to get a large portion of their content from an online format. They
will need to develop new strategies to make sense of the process. Help get them
started with a toolkit of strategies.
10. Make sure there is support for the first time the course is offered.
Technology and teaching issues will come up as the course progresses. There
needs to be extra attention to catch mistakes that made it to the final draft.
11. Revise as needed. Once the training is completed, evaluate the data to see
where is should be altered. There will always be areas to improve.
References
Building Your Course. (2012, January 23). Retrieved February 25, 2017, from
https://blended.online.ucf.edu/process/building-your-course/
CastaoMuoz, J., Duart, J. M., & SanchoVinuesa, T. (2014). The Internet in face
toface higher education: Can interactive learning improve academic
achievement? British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(1), 149159.
Create a User Manuel. (n.d.) Retrieved February 24, 2017 from Wikihow:
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-User-Manual