We introduced you to Blended Learning in Monday’s issue. Here is a reminder of what our project entailed, followed by some of the artwork it used and the poetry it generated.
“The perfect opportunity in the most imperfect moment.”
Eighteen participants from OLLI-USF and OLLI at Northwestern recently completed a five-week blended learning course, More Than Meets the Eye: Our Perspectives in Art. “Blended learning” combined two face-to-face sessions (the first one in two classrooms and the final one on Zoom) and three sessions where participants worked through online material in collaboration with a member at the partner university. Halfway through the course, both OLLIs had to cancel their planned Spring programs due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This course continued. One participant described the course as “a beautiful distraction.” (More…)
