The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs

In this book, is "blended" creative and critically the depth of the academic reasoning with the corporative perspective oriented to the organizational performance, that is to say, it takes the advantages from the formal learning of the school with the advantages from the informal learning of the daily experiencie mixing the technologies of distance education with classroom. It makes emphasis not only in the quality of the ingredients that are blended but in the "glue" that holds all those pieces together: the interaction. Interaction's quality instructor-learner, learner-content and specially to learner-learner from collaborative learning's perspective allow building effective virtual communities of learning. It is not a recipe for a single dish, because each dish requires its own recipe. This book is oriented towards an approach blend of blends of many dimensions, more appropriate to actual requirements technological and cognitive. The Jay Crooss's question is really appropriate today: "Why not blend?"

I appreciated the focus of the book, which is largely focused on adult learners--university students and working adults. So many of the other "blended learning" titles are aimed at teaching school kids.The book is now more than 10 years old and has been eclipsed by many years of additional experience in adult learning and development strategies. And, like so many of these old tomes, they're very expensive--especially for something so dated.

Dr. Custis J. Bonk is gifted at helping teachers make their classrooms more engaging to their students. Anything wrote or suggested by this author would be worth buying and considering for classroom adoption.

Nice book