Blendblog... Christmas came early this year!

Not much to say on this one... only that it seems most cool!  Blendblog is a blog sponsored by the Blend XL project, an EU initiative. 

What is Blend-XL?  

This is a three-year EU funded project in the Minerva programme. ‘Blend’ in the title is a reference to the development of blended learning and teaching. This ‘blending’ is done on a variety of dimensions such as pedagogy, design, delivery, technology.

The Blend-XL project defines blended learning as the effective, efficient and creative combination of modified face-to-face instruction and online, networked learning supported by pedagogically sound uses of technologies, tools and media.

The project work is aimed at the improvement of the overall learning and teaching practice within specific, locally defined problem areas such as student motivation and active forms of learning.

An added element to this definition is a focus on the implications for learning and teaching in extra large student groups. 'XL' in the project name refers to this focus.

It's European, so there's that... (just kidding), and the project focuses on extra-large groups of students, which isn't our primary concern at Augustana, but there are tons of resources here... it will take a while just to browse and sift, but this is a heckuva find!