FEATURED SESSION
Blended Learning in Higher Education: Recent Developments and Implications for Practice
with Randy Garrison and Norm Vaughan
Description: In this live interactive session Dr. Randy Garrison and Dr. Norm Vaughan will outline their framework for blended learning – the community of inquiry model – and relate the new developments that have come out recently that affect this model as well as the implications these new developments have on practice. This session will be filled with practical advice about how to use technology in education that is grounded in a sound theoretical framework.
About the Presenters:
Randy Garrison: D. Randy Garrison is the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre and a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. He served as Dean, Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta from 1996 to 2001. Dr. Garrison has published extensively on teaching and learning in adult, higher and distance education contexts. He has authored or co-authored seven books and over 100 refereed articles/papers. His most recent co-authored books are: E-Learning in the 21st Century (2003) and Blended Learning in Higher Education (2008). The book Blended Learning in Higher Education won the UCEA Frandson Book Award. Dr. Garrison also has a co-authored book in press: An introduction to distance education: Understanding teaching and learning in a new era.
Norm Vaughan: An educator and researcher with interests in blended learning, faculty development and K to 12 schooling, Dr. Norm Vaughan is an instructor in the Department of Education, Faculty of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.
Norm’s teaching background includes graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology, K-12 education in northern Canada, technical training in the petroleum industry, and English as a Second Language in Japan. In addition, he has been involved in several consulting projects with book publishers and higher education institutions to develop online courses and resources. He recently co-authored the book Blended Learning in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2008) and has published a series of articles on blended learning and faculty development. Norm is the Co-founder of the Blended Online Learning Design Network, the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and he is on the Editorial Boards of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology and the Journal on Centres for Teaching & Learning.
