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Projects, peers, passion, and play

Projects, peers, passion, and play

From the course: Teaching Techniques: Blended Learning

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Projects, peers, passion, and play

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- When thinking about designing a course that takes a blended learning approach, consider what pedagogical framework works best for you, your students, and your course. For this course, we'll use the framework of the four P's, projects, peers, passion, and play. Let's walk through these four concepts and see how they can be applied to a blended format. The first is projects. Project based learning allows for a constructionist approach to learning. It allows students to build on their existing knowledge frameworks, incorporating new knowledge and skills into the production of a product. Project based learning requires students to demonstrate both understanding and the application of that understanding differently than a traditional test or quiz. When designing a project for a blended course, consider projects that are open ended, allowing an element of experimentation or discovery, requiring students to engage with others and building on or leveraging their own passions and creativity.…

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