The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs

by Curtis J. Bonk, Charles R. Graham, Jay Cross (Foreword)

This comprehensive resource highlights the most recent practices and trends in blended learning from a global perspective and provides targeted information for specific blended learning situations. You'll find examples of learning options that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning in the workplace, more formal academic settings, and the military. Across these environments, the book focuses on real-world practices and includes contributors from a broad range of fields including trainers, consultants, professors, university presidents, distance-learning center directors, learning strategists and evangelists, general managers of learning, CEOs, chancellors, deans, and directors of global talent and organizational development. This diversity and breadth will help you understand the wide range of possibilities available when designing blended learning environments.  Order your copy today!

640 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 2005

Reviews

[Karen Arnesen]

I read this book because I'm starting a master's degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology and felt I needed to catch up on the newest trends in education. This handbook does a good job at outlining what blended learning is (considering several definitions), what it should accomplish, and how different entities have created successful blended learning programs. After a while I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over, but then, this is supposed to be a handbook.