About
This is a Moodle hub site to accompany the Blended Learning Essentials FutureLearn MOOC, funded by Ufi. We will be using this hub to create and share examples from Blended Learning Essentials and help visualise the crib sheets as Moodle activities. The hub will enable participants on the Blended Learning Essentials MOOC to see what blended learning activities could look like if they were to be set up in Moodle, and to download the activities as Moodle back up files to restore into participants’ own Moodle courses.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Blended Learning Essentials: MOOC?
This MOOC is being run on the FutureLearn platform, funded by Ufi, as a collaboration led by UCL, University of Leeds and ALT. The aim of the MOOC is to transform approaches to blended learning in the Vocational Education and Training Sector.
To go to the MOOC sign up on FutureLearn for Blended Learning Essentials Getting Started and Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Practice.
When does it run?
Both courses have been running at regular intervals on FutureLearn since 2015. Look out for the next run by searching for "Blended Learning Essentials" in the FutureLearn course directory - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses
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Do I need to attend all runs of the course?
No –the same material will be repeated in later runs so there is no need to attend multiple sessions.
Can anyone join?
Yes - the course is free to attend and open to all. It is particularly aimed at anyone working in the Vocational Education and Training sector. Whether you are directly supporting learners or delivering training, this course will help you use blended learning more effectively.
Course team
Diana Laurillard, Chair of Learning with Digital Technology at London Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education
Developing an international community of teachers around the Learning Designer, a learning design tool for sharing new pedagogies for using learning technology. Running a MOOC on ICT in Primary Education on Coursera, and one on Blended Learning Essentials on FutureLearn. Previously: Head of the E-Learning Strategy Unit, DfES; Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning Technologies and Teaching, Open University; on the Visiting Committee on IT at Harvard University; Thinker in Residence at the Royal Flemish Academy; President of the Association for Learning Technology. Most recent book is Teaching as a Design Science, Routledge, 2012.
Eileen Kennedy, Research and Projects Officer.
Based at London Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education and E-Learning Environments, UCL.
