Discover best practices in combining classroom and online learning, as well as some of their educational benefits and challenges.
McMaster University
McMaster University is located in Hamilton, a city of 500,000 in southern Ontario, Canada, which has over time experienced significant losses in employment due to declines in its industrial, steel and manufacturing industries. In 2010, a newspaper series reported that 17% of the population lived... Learn more about Blended Learning Program in Leadership in Community Engagement at McMaster University, Ontario, CanadaAlgonquin College
The initial steps Algonquin College in Ottawa took to become a Digital College are outlined in Digital College – Organizational change for enhanced student learning and engagement in Contact North | Contact Nord’s Pockets of Innovation Series. The Series also highlights Algonquin’s 2013 launch of... Learn more about Moving Ahead with the Digital CollegeWilfrid Laurier University
The Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) in Waterloo offers a two-year Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) program. Students attracted to this program include those from faculties of music across Ontario who wish to become certified music teachers. The B.Ed. program offers... Learn more about A Blended Course at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, Teaches Students How to Teach MusicSt. Lawrence College
With an increasing number of post-secondary educators teaching both online and face-to-face courses, characteristics of each format inevitably cross over from one to the other. St. Lawrence College, with campuses in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston, understood the complexities of hybrid... Learn more about The Hybrid Learning Initiative at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston, Canada, Teaches Faculty the Finer Points of Designing Hybrid CoursesUniversity of Ottawa
The goal of the University of Ottawa’s blended learning initiative is to offer 20 percent of the university’s courses in hybrid format – both online and face-to-face – by the year 2020, a development eventually impacting the studies of 25,000 of its students. Professor James... Learn more about A Science Fiction Course Makes Hybrid Learning Anything but Futuristic at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, CanadaCambrian College
As described by Joan Campbell, Dean, Schools of Business and Information Technology, Creative Arts and Design, and Hospitality at Cambrian College in Sudbury, “teaching and learning strategies, such as blended learning and flexible delivery, are essential in meeting the needs of our current and... Learn more about Student Choice: Offering Multiple Course Design Options for Better Access and Learning at Cambrian College
