Responsive Blended Learning
Responsive Blended Learning (RBL) combines active, supported online learning with contextually appropriate face-to-face learning opportunities, responding dynamically to the changing external context. This approach enables students to proceed with their studies alongside their peers, whatever pandemic-related restrictions are lifted or imposed in specific contexts.
RBL: Our principles
- Prioritise the wellbeing of staff and students.
- Support students to thrive as part of global learning communities.
- Value our staff and their skills, knowledge and passion for their subject that underpins the HWU learning experience.
- Build on our strengths as a global, multi-sited university.
- Blend online and face-to-face learning in a way that is pedagogically appropriate and practically deliverable.
- Ensure identical academic standards across learning contexts.
- Maintain our commitment to Inspiring Learning.
At the heart of the RBL approach is our Heriot-Watt global learning community, our students and our staff collaborating together to inspire learning.
Introducing Responsive Blended Learning module
The Introducing Responsive Blended Learning module is open to colleagues across Heriot-Watt University who will be teaching or supporting students in AY20/21 through a Responsive Blended Learning approach.
It can be studied as a linear module, worked through from beginning to end. Alternatively you can dip in and engage with specific resources as and when you need them. Either way, we hope that you’ll find it useful for the immediate transition to Responsive Blended Learning and in developing your practice more broadly.
Heriot-Watt staff (if logging in with their Heriot-Watt ID) can:
- book a place on a moderated cohort of the module via Libcal.
- access the module site on the VLE (Vision) here.
- self-enrol on the module using the self-enrolment guidance.
- self-enrol on the Heriot-Watt VLE (Vision) navigation example.