The following are examples of blended courses taught at institutions in the United States. More examples will be added in the future.
University of Central Florida
MAN4350 – Training and Development
College of Business Administration, Management Department
Fourth year undergraduate course
Dr. Holland’s course focuses on training and development activities as performed by organizational specialists and covers theory, issues, practices, and problems. This course is designed to provide students with management knowledge and skills to develop workplace learning and performance of employees. By the end of the course, students will objectively evaluate and understand human resource development and performance improvement situations and determine the best course of action from a manager’s point of view.
Students learn through self-directed study of the text, online learning modules and assignments, classroom lecture, and extensive use of in-class and online participative activities such as teamwork, case studies, skill practice, etc.
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PHH 3700 – American Philosophy
College of Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Department
Third year undergraduate course
American philosophy is a thematic and chronological survey of philosophical, religious, and scientific developments in American thought, with primary focus on the American spirit of individualism and reform. It is a survey course and includes many figures and ideas in the history of American philosophy. American philosophy involves analysis of some major problems of philosophy as well as a historically arranged look at developments in and of American thought from the Colonial era to the present. The texts for the course focus on the themes of optimism, individualism, and reform in ethical, metaphysical, epistemological, and social/political contexts. There is potential disagreement surrounding the themes, and it is certainly possible to argue that American philosophy is NOT characterized specifically by those three things. The position of the editors and authors of the texts, however, is that it is possible to understand the history and problems of American philosophy through these three (as well as other) concepts.
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MAN3025 – Management of Organizations
College of Business Administration, Management Department
Third year undergraduate course
Dr. Putchinski recently retired. One of the management courses she taught was an introduction to the theory and practice of managing formal organizations, including planning, organization theory, human behavior and control. Dr. Putchinski used several strategies to make sure her students came to class prepared so classroom time could be used to expand on the content and explore examples.
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Simmons College
Case Studies of Blended Courses
Simmons College provides case studies with some of their experienced blended faculty. For each case study, you will find a description of the study, description of the course, video interviews with the faculty member and resources related to the course.
University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
UMW provides descriptions for some of their blended/hybrid courses. Faculty members describe their courses including major activities and provide some information about the course design.
BlendKit Course
Please see the BlendKit Course materials for interdisciplinary examples of blended learning course materials and design documents. Many of these are woven into the BlendKit Course’s do-it-yourself task guides, but other examples are provided on the Recordings page and in the BlendKit Reader.
