Number 014 Newsletter for professors June 2013
TheThinker · June 2013
The
thinker
Teaching and Learning Support Service
{www.
tlss.
uOttawa.
ca}
ADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS
Collaborative learning: possibility to
discuss online and face-to-face with
classmates,...
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Number 014 Newsletter for professors June 2013
TheThinker · June 2013
The
thinker
Teaching and Learning Support Service
{www.
tlss.
uOttawa.
ca}
ADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS
Collaborative learning: possibility to
discuss online and face-to-face with
classmates, TA’s and professors;
Environments more stimulating and
dynamic;
Flexible access to course material (time
and place);
Learn at their own pace;
Help to overcome the sense of isolation
many students feel when doing fully
online courses;
Reduction of costs for students by
decreasing travel expenses, etc.
;
Better results: statistics demonstrate
that students score higher in blended
courses than they do in lecture-based
courses, and in fully online courses.
ADVANTAGES OF BLENDED
LEARNING FOR PROFESSORS
Positive experience and attitude of
their students towards technologymediated teaching and learning;
Affinity with different styles of learning;
Improvementoflearningoutcomesand
increase of the quality of interaction
between students and p
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