The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs [Hardcover]

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!

Forewords xvii
Jay Cross, Michael G. Moore

Preface and Acknowledgments xxxi
Curtis J. Bonk, Charles R. Graham

Part One: Introduction to Blended Learning 1

1 Blended Learning Systems: Definition, Current Trends, and Future Directions 3
Charles R. Graham

2 The Blended Learning Imperative 22
Elliott Masie

3 Why Blended Learning Hasnt (Yet) Fulfilled Its Promises: Answers to Those Questions That Keep You Up at Night 27
Jennifer Hofmann

4 On Designing Interaction Experiences for the Next Generation of Blended Learning 41
Ellen D. Wagner

Part Two: Corporate Blended Learning Models and Perspectives 57

5 Blending Learning for Business Impact: IBMs Case for Learning Success 61
Nancy J. Ll&