Make sense of digitally supported learning

At CDUL we work with digitally supported PBL. It’s an umbrella term and exists in many forms. On a day-to-day basis we talk about hybrid teaching, Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom and digital teaching. These, and probably other terms concerning digital PBL, are terms you will encounter on our website and in your everyday life at AAU. There are comprehensive definitions for each term and here we will provide a short introduction of the terms mentioned above: 

• Hybrid teaching: A form of teaching where a number of students are physically present in the classroom and the rest participate via digital solutions like Teams or Zoom. The digital and classroom-based learning activities takes place simultaneously.
• Blended Learning: The teaching takes place with all the students together, and works with either digital learning activities or classroom-based learning activities. The digital and classroom-based learning activities take place asynchronously – that is to say not at the same time. Get an introduction to blended learning here.
• Flipped Classroom: This is a method where you utilize the time you have with your students in the most efficient way possible. You flip the order of the typical way of classroom learning: joint presentation of new academic knowledge followed by a lecture, often followed by individual or group based “homework”. With the flipped classroom method you do it the other way around. The purpose of this is to free the time spent with your students, so it may be used for actively working with the new academic knowledge.
• Digital teaching: A broad term, which includes everything from 100% online teaching to traditional classroom-based teaching with digital elements, such as a PowerPoint presentation. 

If you need to talk about any of the above in relation to your own teaching, you can always contact CDUL. We have many tips and tricks to help you with innovating your digital PBL practices.