Creating Blended Learning Experiences for Busy Professionals
Karen Hyder
Karen Hyder has been collaborating with Hearing First LLC since 2016 to develop and guide delivery of a series of online courses that support listening and spoken-language (LSL) professionals and parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this session, Karen – who provides ongoing coaching and production support to Hearing First – will describe how using Adobe Connect to adopt and deliver an evidence-based, flipped classroom model – also called a blended-learning model – has enabled Hearing First to meet the challenge of improving learning outcomes. Participants will learn how Hearing First leveraged an online community platform for independent learning assignments, recordings, and resources, and facilitated virtual-classroom sessions to engage with others and apply new skills. Karen will share the failures and the genius of the design and production plans; insights into Adobe Connect and other software tools; and methods for preparing and motivating subject-matter experts and participants. Participants in this session also will explore:
The basics of a flipped-classroom design and delivery model
How to determine the roles of key team members
Production and preparation and planning steps
Technical considerations
Three things Hearing First and Karen wish they had known before they started
Technology discussed: Adobe Connect, Telligent
