IEEE Blended Learning Program

The underlying pedagogical approach can be mapped to various levels defined in Bloom’s taxonomy:

Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

However, the instructional design (ID) approach used in the IEEE Blended Learning Program is derived from a keen understanding of techniques for most effective teaching. These principles include:

• • Focus on “What, Why, and How”: Each concept in the course is explained to answer the following three questions:
    • What is a concept, similar to a definition?
    • How to apply or implement a concept?
    • Why is this concept relevant?
  • Concept Checks: The instructional design approach is designed to make the learner a very active participant in his/her learning in multiple ways. Each concept is followed by a short interactive Concept Check exercise to give the learner an opportunity to check his understanding
  • Points to Remember: Key takeaways are provided for most pages in the course to help learner remember the most important ideas
  • Context Sensitive Glossary to provide learners easy access to key definitions
  • Audio Lecture: In order to accommodate learners that have different abilities, interest, or background knowledge, a unique Audio Lecture is also included in the e-Learning. The Audio Lecture contains additional detail about the topic of a page that learners can listen to but is not required to understand the material