{"id":99,"date":"2021-01-08T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/?p=99"},"modified":"2021-01-11T08:14:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T08:14:34","slug":"from-here-to-there-reflections-on-a-semester-of-the-bathblend-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/2021\/01\/08\/from-here-to-there-reflections-on-a-semester-of-the-bathblend-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From here to there\u2026 reflections on a semester of the #bathblend \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author: Steve Cayzer -<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Along with the rest of the UK educational community, I have ensured that my courses @UniOfBath are Covid-ready. This means designing them according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/guides\/your-learning\/#bath-blend\">Bath Blend<\/a> which includes independent (self paced) learning, Live Online Interactive Learning (LOIL) and In Person Time (IPT). In this blog, I show how I designed the blended experience in a social and inclusive way.<\/p>\n<h2>Independent Learning does not mean recorded lectures<\/h2>\n<p>One temptation is simply to take my existing lectures and record them. I don\u2019t take that easy option, as it leads to a few issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hour long recorded lectures are really not very engaging.<\/li>\n<li>They would also overload my students, in a typical week there might be 10 hours of recorded content a week, plus at least the same again in associated self study, before they even get to the live online sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As one student commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[Pre-learning allows] you to prepare ahead of time and thus allows you to focus on lecture materials with a basis of knowledge. However, if it is too long it can be overwhelming and unrealistic.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, I tried a more holistic approach which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>video snippets<\/li>\n<li>self assessment quizzes<\/li>\n<li>games<\/li>\n<li>asynchronous forums<\/li>\n<li>\u2018try at home\u2019 activities<\/li>\n<li>and whatever else that is engaging, relevant and valuable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For this reason, I avoid the term \u2018pre reading\u2019 and prefer the phrase \u2018pre learning\u2019. As an example, my pre learning for game theory took the form of an online game (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/ncase.me\/trust\/\">nickycase<\/a>) and a series of short video snippets, each building up to a self assessment question (answered in the next snippet). There were 6 snippets each of 5 minutes. This cuts down the recorded content from 2 hours (had I just recorded traditional lectures) to a much more manageable 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2021\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"212\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre learning, signposted from the Learning Management System and consisting of an online game followed by 6 short video snippets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Steve Cayzer\u2019s blog will be continued here in the very near future. Sign up to receive notifications for the blog so you don\u2019t miss Part 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog, Prof Steve Cayzer shows how he designed the blended learning experience in a social and inclusive way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[68,67,15,55],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mech-eng","category-opinion","tag-bathblend","tag-blended-learning","tag-faculty-of-engineering-design","tag-online-learning"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4PBP-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fed-academia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}