Panel Presentation DES110
Powering Up the Effectiveness of Blended Learning
Hear here about blended-learning strategies and get new ideas to apply the method in order to maximise educational impact for students in various contexts. If you have “gone blended” too, join our conversation!
Meghan Perdue
Digital Learning Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
I am a Digital Learning Fellow in the Digital Learning Lab at MITx. In my role, I work with MIT faculty to create online courses and digital learning tools for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and researches and conducts experiments into the best practices in online pedagogy. I have developed several courses currently available on edX, including "Qualitative Research Methods", "Shaping Work of the Future", "Tools for Academic Engagement with Public Policy" and "Democracy and Development: Perspectives from Africa".
I am very interested in the ways that how, where and when we learn are changing, as a result of technological change. I am working as a researcher on MIT's Taskforce on the Work of the Future, working on a project which seeks to examine best practices in online and blended workforce education at scale. I am working on a tool to help integrate "21st century skills" into humanities and social sciences curriculum and assessments, to help students obtain a wide variety of skills and create more engaging learning experiences.
Keld Hvam
Director of E-Learning and E-Didactics, IBA - International Business Academy, Denmark
Director of E-Learning and E-Didactics at the International Business Academy in Kolding, Denmark.
I teach subjects like Communication, Culture Studies and Research Methods.
Apart from research in e-didactics, my special responsibilities also include being Course Director of four online UG and PG programmes, all of which we offer to students around the world in close co-operation with Leeds Beckett University in the UK.
I have been a visiting professor at London South Bank University.
External examiner at 5 Danish universities
Co-writer of 9 textbooks for learners of English at Danish business schools. The most recent research article, I wrote was: “MOOCs – A Challenge or an Opportunity”, published in Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses by ICI Global.
I have given presentations or talks to international audiences in the US, Britain, France, Germany and Denmark, especially on the practical application of e-learning technologies.
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Søren Bladt
Senior Lecturer, IBA - International Business Academy, Denmark
Senior Lecturer IBA Kolding
Module leader MBA, MsC and BA at IBA/Leeds Becket University online courses in International Management
Senior Consultant at the IBA Learning Lab
Guest Lecturer at WUXI Institute of Technology, China
Consultant within sales and marketing in regional innovation project - KOIN
Consultant within project management in regional innovation project - KOIN
Sales and marketing manager in International Sporting Goods Company
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Jacob Rosch
Head of Educational Technology, Collège du Léman, Switzerland
Jacob Rosch has served in a number of educational leadership and teaching roles in China, the USA, and the UK. He is currently the Director of Ed Tech for a primary through secondary school, Collège du Léman in Switzerland. This international school serves 1900 students representing over 100 nationalities. He co-created a Blended Learning teacher training programme to meet the needs of these diverse learners. Jacob regularly delivers workshops on educational technology tools and methodologies within his school and internationally.
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Sandra Barteit
Postdoctoral Researcher, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Germany
Sandra Barteit is a trained Computational Linguist who holds a PhD of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University. Her main interest is how to best make use of technology to improve health and her PhD research was on the evaluation of a medical e-learning intervention in Zambia employing a mixed-methods approach looking at the technology acceptance, information system success, usage and knowledge gain through the e-platform.
The medical e-learning is part of the Blended Learning in Zambia (BLiZ) project whose overall goal is the sustainable and long-term implementation of blended learning to support the quality and quantity of medical education for healthcare in rural Zambia for medical licentiates at the Levy Mwanawasa Medical University. The BLiZ project is a collaborative project between Lewy Mwanawasa Medical University (formed: Chainama College of Health Sciences), SolidarMed and Heidelberg Institute of Global Health.
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Wilfred Rubens
Owner and consultant, Consultant, Edublogger and Editor at e-learning.nl, The Netherlands
Wilfred Rubens (1964) currently works as an independent consultant on technology enhanced learning. He works as a project leader and he provides advice about strategy and the use of technology for learning. Wilfred delivers keynotes and presentations, and he facilitates workshops and classes about technology enhanced learning. Wilfred has been professionally involved in e-learning for almost 30 years. For more than 15 years he blogs about ICT and learning. He published a book about elearning trends and developments (in Dutch), and he is co-author of a book about social learning. Wilfred is also one of the editors of the Dutch portal e-learning.nl, member of the advisory board of the anual Dutch Next Learning conference and member of the advisory board of OEB Global.