About the course - Course specifics related to Covid, Course specifics related to blending.

Spring 2020 with A-Z as case the pitch workshop started promising. Where the pitch previously was a fest of creativity it was expected the more digital approach enforced by Covid would steer towards.

Some parts are good ...

“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Is credited to Samuel Johnson, but not proven yet. In German it appears with new/true as opposite characteristics: “Dein redseliges Buch lehrt mancherlei Neues und Wahres, Wäre das Wahre nur neu, wäre das Neue nur wahr!”. The standard practice of teaching was overawed by blended learning and Covid. Not all new was good and not all was negative, and it wasn’t standard in the first place.

Conclusion: An huge inaccuracy is the idea of time saving by blended learning ...

ERES Education Seminar 2021 "Blended Learning: Lessons from Covid". Paper session 1a on "Opportunities for strengthening education post-covid"