BLENDED LEARNING FOR A MASTER COURSE ON ENGINEERING AND

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

Doan Huy Hien, PhD

Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam

Outlines

• Traditional training model

• Elearning model

• Blended traning model

• Environmental Engineering Geology Course

• Course schedule

Traditionally Learning Model

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• Closely interact between lecturer and trainers

• Respond immediately to an individual student’s question

• Conduct secure assessments

• Simultaneously view common materials.

• Give individualized assignments

Advantages of Traditionally Learning Model

Problem of Traditionally Learning Model

• Balancing between friends and school• Awareness• Self management• Planning• Lack of interest in materials• Trying to cram• Not knowing the expectation of the

course• Not enough time• Not remembering things

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Problem of Traditionally Learning Model

Make the learners inactive

Newly Learning Approach

Elearning model

Is generally defined as any form of learning that utilizes a network for delivery, interaction, or facilitation .

Elearning Mission

Elearning is the future schooling for providing:

education for all and increasing potential of

information telecommunication technology (ITC) to meet

different educational objectives

Elearning Objectives

• Expands opportunity of education

• Expands quality of learning.

• Increases delivery of learning.

• Improves efficiency of teaching.

• Nobody has the exact answer  

• Graduates will be exposed to new information in one year than their grandparents in a lifetime. 

• Memorizing facts will have lower value, than utilizing information for decision-making.

Future of Elearning

• Multi-career.• Change of career.• Lifelong learning.• Just-in-Time (JIT) learning.• Career development: learning by the

corporate• Telecommuting learning: distance

Future of Elearning, cont’d

Traditional vs. Elearning

Traditional Learning

Elearning

Teacher Centered Student Centered

Single Media Multimedia

Isolated Work Collaborative Work

Information Delivery

Information Exchange

Factual-based Learning

Skills-based learning

Bricks & Board Technology-enabled learning

Push approach Pull approach

Potential Elearning: Pros

•New opportunities to maximize learning potentials

•Customized and flexible learning

•No commuting time or travel cost

•No constraints of geographical location

•Learning while working •Learning at her/his own pace

•Just-In-Time (JIT) learning •Learning to fit busy schedule

•Re-tooling for the unemployed

•No campus space is required

•Probably less costly •Greater learning resources available

Potential Elearning: Cons

•Instructors need to be effective

•Needs of students for equipment and service providers

•Hard for instructors to move traditional content online

•Academic integrity of online students

•Time consuming for individualized feedback

•Lack face-to-face interaction

•Technical training of learners

•Lack of regulations of learning practices and quality assurance

•Effectiveness of assessments

•Lack of e-learning culture

Potential Elearning: Cons

•Equity of access to learners of different backgrounds

•E-learning must be integrated into the mainstream accreditation and quality assurance – guidance, design delivery and assessment

•Requires new skills and responsibility from learners

•Lack of policies of intellectual property rights to protect e-learning content authors

•Content developers have to be trained in instructional design, learning theory

•Lack of social interactive aspects of campus and classrooms

Blended Learning Model

“… the single greatest unrecognised trend in higher education today” (Young, 2002, President of Penn State University).

“Blended learning the thoughtful integration of face-to-face and Elearning experiences. The basic principle is that face-to-face oral communication and written communication are optimally integrated such that the strengths of each are blended into a unique learning experience…” (Garrison & Vaughan, 2007 p.5)

Calls for a change in ‘culture’ of teaching.

Blended Learning Methodology

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Blended learning benefit

• Increase the effectiveness of the learning process.

• Reducing the cost and time required to learn.

• Increasing learner satisfaction about the learning process.

• Increase the number of student. • Increase the motivation to the learning

process through the use of multimedia

Why AIT conduct blended learning?

• AIT has a long history on graduate training programs

• AIT has an excellent number of faculties with international standard

• AIT has an excellent IT facility

Blended learning benefit

• Provide the three choices for our learners (F2F,Online,Blended).

• It works to improve educational outcomes.

• Blended learning allows us to make the most of technology to achieve specific educational goals.

• Blended Learning can utilize learning and work .

Environmental Engineering Geology (EEG)

• EEG combines the contents of both environmental geology and engineering geology, the course is to equip students with an understanding of how geology interacts with major Environmental problems and issues facing people and society, and also provide a balanced and comprehensive understanding of the methods and approaches that are useful in dealing with the great variety of geologic conditions encountered in engineering works.

EEG Course Output

• Understand on the formation of soil/rock

• Understand on the distribution of natural resource and geohazards

• Understand on the interacts between geology and environment

EEG Course Output

• Consult on decision making concerning the use of water, minerals, energy resources, and our response to and preparedness for natural hazards.

• Plan and design for site investigation with optimum solution

• Groundwater modeling and design for land subsidence analysis

Blended EEG Leaning

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Video Lecture F2F Lecture OnlineConference

OnlineDiscussion

Exam

EEG Course ScheduleTime Time Events Resources

Nov 13 8.00-8.308.30-16.30

Open CeremonyF2F lecture Dr. Pham Huy Giao

Nov 14-Nov 30

First video Lecture (5 hours) Online study

Dec 01 19.0-20.0 Online discussion with instructor Dr. Pham Huy GiaoTraining assistant

Dec 02 - Dec 14

Second video lecture (5 hours) Online study

Dec 15 18.00-21.00Online video conference with

international expert (First time)

International expert,

Training Assistant

Dec 16-

Dec 28

Third Video lecture (5 hours)Online study

EEG Course ScheduleTime Time Events Resources

Dec 29 19.0-20.0 Online discussion with instructure Dr. Pham Huy GiaoTraining assistant

Dec 30- Jan 11

Fourth Video Lecture (6hours) Online study

Jan 12 19.0-20.0 Online discussion with instructor Dr. Pham Huy GiaoTraining assistant

Jan 13 – Jan 22

Self review on 21 hours video lecture, summarize on problems raising up

Online study

Jan 23 18.00-21.00Online video conference with

international expert (First time)

International expert,

Training Assistant

Jan 25 8.30-16.30 F2F lecture Dr. Pham Huy Giao

Feb 04 18.00-21.00 Online examination

Thank you for your attentions