Archives: blended learning

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Blog: Teaching a blended course: Trial and error

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science With the university’s push towards incorporating more online teaching, “blended” courses (courses in which some classroom time is replaced by online material) have appeared. In my faculty (Public Affairs), the blended model was rolled out as a half-and-half model (with... More

Monday, February 3, 2014

Teaching on the flip side: Reflections on Richard Nimijean’s experience in a flipped classroom

By: Cassandra Hendry In thousands of classrooms across Canada, students sit in bolted-down chairs, periodically nodding off as a professor drones on for three hours straight. In these classes, a lecture truly lives up to its name. It’s not always pretty. And then there’s Richard Nimijean’s classes. Nimijean, a professor of Canadian Studies... More

Friday, January 31, 2014

Missed Sir John Daniel’s presentation on online learning? Catch up here!

On January 22, 2014, Sir John Daniel, world authority on open, distance and online learning, came to Carleton to present a special briefing on the future of online learning. Part of Contact North | Contact Nord's Emerging Technologies Training Program, the briefing covered a variety of topics, including the changing nature of the student... More

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