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At present, blended learning is at formative stage in higher education setting. The blending way at institutional level is one of the important contents for a higher education organization. In this paper, we introduce our policy reforming experiments in the university, an open university in China. We analyze the different motivations in the university to choose blended learning. We show our blended learning model at institutional level. We introduce our policies on instruction team, ICT plan, learning assessment, promoting interaction and virtual learning community. At last, we analyze the results and data of thirty courses in 2011 with stochastic sampling investigation method. The data shows that some courses are blended learning and the policies are effective.
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Jun, L. (2012). The Policy and Strategy for Blended Learning in a Chinese Open University. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Kwok, LF., Li, K., Kwan, R. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_32
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