Title:	BLENDED LEARNING ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTING A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT COURSE: LESSONS LEARNT AT THE SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU)
Author(s):	Thomas Menkhoff , Thang Tze Yian , Wong Yue Kee
ISBN:	978-972-8924-68-3
Editors:	Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Dirk Ifenthaler
Year:	2008
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Distance learning and the virtual classroom, design rationales, evaluation
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	34
Last Page:	42
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	In 2005, the authors of this essay led the development and launch of SMU’s (Singapore Management University) first elearning package on ‘Knowledge Management’ (in short: ELM). The package is aimed at supporting SMU’s mission to be “committed to an interactive, participative and technologically-enabled learning experience”. To support SMU’s pedagogy, wireless technology for mobile computing is a central feature. Against this background, the paper features a self-critical and reflective case study of the roll out of an innovative e-learning module blended into a ‘Knowledge Management’ (KM) course. In the paper, the authors share the rationale behind the design features of the module and the implementation platform, describe the effort to blend the module into the teaching of the KM course and provide a critical impact assessment of the module based on students’ feedback and evaluation results. They also propose empirically derived hypotheses about interaction and presence as potential predictors of effective web-based learning to be tested in future studies.
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