DESIGNING BLENDED LEARNING FOCUSED ON KNOWLEDGE CATEGORY AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES Case Studies from Beijing Normal University

With the fast-growing economy and changing society in China, there has been large-scale development of both regular higher education and distance education in recent years. But we also have to face the challenges of inferior schools, lack of teachers, and lack of understanding about instructional theory and methods. Following world trends, many universities and colleges in China have carried out numerous experiments with e-learning but have not achieved the expected results. This chapter puts forward a module of curriculum design based on blended learning while summarizing our research and practice in this area during the past several years, which aims at integrating the advantages of traditional instruction and e-learning as well as overcoming their disadvantages. The module, which considers the learner, the learning objectives, the design of learning resources and activities, the delivery methods, and associated assessment techniques, has demonstrated its viability in designing blended learning. In the end, this chapter gives two practical cases that use this blended learning model: one related to curriculum resource development and the other to the instructional implementation of curriculum.