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Blended Learning: Integrating Online & In-person

Strategies for Integrating Online & In-person Components

This page collates some tips, ideas and suggestions for optimizing the integration of your online and in-person course components. Click on each subheading to expand the sections, each containing ideas, suggestions or questions to consider as well as resources if you want to learn more.

As you work through this content, please reflect on the questions in Section 4 – Integrating Online & In-Person Components of your worksheet, noting down your responses:

  • What do you foresee as the biggest advantage(s) of your chosen approach?
  • What do you foresee will be a difficulty or challenge(s) of the approach, and how might you mitigate these challenges?
    • What communication strategies will you apply and how?
    • What tools will you use and why?

Then, map out some of the course components (i.e., content, activities, and assessments) you identified in Section 3 – Course Design: Component Modalities of your worksheet using the provided table. Use the strategies and tools you identified to help you plan for integration.

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