Learner engagement is essential for positive student learning experiences and outcomes. While the higher education sector has accumulated years of experience with learner engagement with conventional face-to-face instruction, it is also placing increasingly more emphasis on the combination of in-person and online teaching and learning (T&L) activities, which enhances T&L in multiple ways. Widely practised as a balanced combination of face-to-face and online learning experiences, blended learning is in fact omnipresent in our lives: human beings learn ‘partially virtually, partially tangible’ (Glazer, Blended Learning: Across the disciplines, across the academy, p.1). Promoting and supporting learner engagement in blended learning environment is receiving greater attention and scrutiny in recent years. This proposed presentation will be situated in an AIinfused T&L landscape: the speaker will survey recent scholarship on GenAI and blended learning and share her insights into strategies, based on practical experience and established scholarship, for delivering blended learning to maximize the benefit for instructors and learners in the emerging digital learning environments of higher education.

Speaker: Katrine K. Wong

Published in: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2024)

• Date of Conference: 4-6 November 2024
• DOI: 10.20533/LICE.2024.0004
• ISBN: 978-1-913572-74-7
• Conference Location: St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK