Author: Several contributors - no single author
How to Integrate Online and Traditional Learning
The buzz phrase of the moment in the world of training is ‘blended learning’ but ...
- What exactly is it?
- How can it help?
- How does it relate to e-learning?
- Is it right for your organization?
- How can you implement it?
These questions and more are answered in this up-to-the minute guide to the latest trend in training.
Essentially, blended learning is a workable solution that allows trainers and staff developers to integrate online learning within a broader range of more traditional learning techniques. Demonstrating how old and new methods of improving staff performance and learning can work seamlessly together to give better results, this book is the ideal guide to creating a new way of training. In her usual practical style Kaye Thorne shows how the concept of blended learning can be applied most effectively to help you take the first steps towards developing a blended training programme. Case studies from a wide variety of organizations (from Rolls Royce to small businesses) illustrate what is emerging as the new (post-digital revolution) training of the future.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What is blended learning?
Developing an employer brand
So what does blended learning mean?
So what are the drawbacks?
Why is blended learning important?
2. How to support blended learning
Creating the right environment for learning
How do people prefer to learn?
Making learning a real experience
Using the whole brain
So how do you get started?
3. Planning ways of integrating different types of learning
What makes for successful blended learning?
An approach to blended learning
Everyone is different
Helping learners to learn
Creating a coaching environment
Time to reflect
4. Designing blended learning
Creativity
Tools and techniques
Designing and writing online learning
Contract with the learner
Using other media
Other key points to remember
5. Tracking blended learning
Inviting feedback
Reflecting on learning
What are the essential elements of a TNA?
Using a learning management system
Overcoming obstacles
Areas to consider
6. Case studies
Rolls-Royce plc
Diageo
DaimlerChrysler
Avis
Ashridge
Basic Skills Agency
Computeach
Nationwide Trust
Milwaukee Electric Tool
The US Department of Health and Human Services
THINQ Limited
What lessons have we learnt from the case studies?
7. Building learning networks
Self-knowledge
Take time to talk
Manage your own success
Build a support network
Share information
Useful contacts
8. So where do we go from here?
What are the benefits of blended learning?
What is the future for blended learning?
What lessons have we learnt to date?
Are you ready for blended learning?
(Publisher: Kogan Page).
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