Blended learning

How to combine the strengths of face-to-face education with the benefits of online education? Learn more about the theme Blended learning and enrich your students’ learning experience. This way, you promote interaction between students and the subject matter, between students and yourself as a teacher, and between students themselves. On this page, learn more about what blended learning entails and how to apply it in your teaching. Find real-life examples from colleagues. And benefit from development opportunities, such as the e-learning and course Blended learning.

WHAT

What is blended learning?

HOW TO

Implement blended learning

Teacher Stories

Programming with Python

Martijn Stegeman and Ivo van Vulpen about the course ‘Introduction to scientific programming’ for every science student.

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Blended learning in the course “Introduction to Criminal Law”

Clear structure, varied work formats and clear communication made the blended learning course Introduction to Criminal Law a success.

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Interactive teaching for large groups

Erwin van Vliet about flipped-class pedagogy in combination with peer instruction via an online voting system during class.

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Teacher story: Annemarie Zand Scholten

Flipped classroom only works if you encourage students to watch video and make the lectures truly interactive.

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Explaining math in videos

Jaap de Jonge about short explainers for students, each of which about part of the content of a lecture.

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Online education: Active learning tools with Esther Quaedackers

Activated learning instead of merely listening. Lecturer Esther Quadackers shows the tools teachers can use to make learning more active.

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The power of feedback

In a course on Games, we wanted to give interaction and technology a prominent role. But how do you develop an interactive working group for 75 students? A blended learning experiment with physical meetings combined with digital, interactive media, using the platform Pitch2Peer.

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Perusall: Every Student Prepared for Every Lecture

In 2019, University Lecturer Erwin van Vliet’s Grassroots application was honored to further develop the social learning platform Perusall. There are now more than 250 UvA courses using this tool, and that number continues to grow.

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eJournal

Robert van Wijk about eJournal; a tool which links with Canvas and provides an easy to manage graded journal system.

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E-learning for applied mathematics

Interview with Leo Dorst about e-learning for applied mathematics.

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Preparing for lab with a digital manual

Richard de Boer about LabBuddy, in which you can make a digital lab manual.

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Interview with Giorgia Romagnoli

In light of Active Learning as a philosophy to increase participation and engagement, we asked Giorgia Romagnoli about the tools and teaching approaches she uses in her Microeconomics 2 course of the BSc E&BE.

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Educational Practices Wooclap

Tjibbe Bosman on the use of Wooclap within education.

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Voting in the classroom

Marthe Schut about using an online voting tool during the practice sessions of ‘Basic Mathematics in Psychobiology’.

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Teacher story: Sanjay Bisseur

Dr. Sanjay Bisseur on his pilot project “Visual Interactive Feedback Online”. Data from the interactive question sessions were used to create short knowledge clips with additional explanations.

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Development opportunities

E-learning Blended learning

This e-learning is designed for those who want to learn more about blended learning and apply it themselves in teaching practice. You will learn what exactly blended education is, what the advantages are and how you can design your course or curriculum blended.

You can also take the Blended learning course to put the insights from the e-learning into practice.

E-learning Blended Learning (via Canvas)

Course Blended learning

During the corona crisis, we all, willingly or unwillingly, gained a lot of experience with online education. In the process, we have also experienced the advantages and disadvantages of online education. How can you design a blended course? That is what you will work with in this course. Together with fellow teachers, you will learn how to design blended education and work with an active and engaged group of students.

Blended Learning course

Course Flipped classroom

In this course, you will learn about the flipped classroom instructional approach. You will get inspiration for active learning activities that you could use in your course and you will have the opportunity to propose a (re)design for a course in which you teach. It will take you about two hours to complete this course.

Flipped Classroom course

Below you can find articles from the TLC network about Blended learning. Also view the other didactic themes.

Blended learning

Strategies to fuel student engagement

Boost student engagement to improve retention, performance, and lifelong learning. Explore practical tips for behavioural, emotional, social, and cognitive engagement.

Blended learning

What is student engagement?

Encouraging student engagement is essential in higher education. It can transform simple actions like participating in class or enjoying a course into deep, meaningful commitment. Engagement could be the key to reducing student apathy and facilitating deeper learning. On the flip side, a lack of engagement can lead to negative outcomes for the student, their peers, and you as an educator. But what exactly is student engagement?

Blended learning

Implement blended learning in your teaching

Blended learning