| term blended learning is being used with increased frequency in both academic and corporate circles. This hope is embedded in many of the chapters of this book. Education underlies any chance for solving global world problems. In 2003, American Society for Training and Development identified blended learning as one of top ten trends to emerge in industry (Rooney, 2003). In 2002, Chronicle of quoted president of Pennsylvania State University as saying that convergence between online and residential instruction was “the single-greatest unrecognized trend in higher education today” (Young, 2002, p. A33). Perhaps you can add to or remix a part of it in your own unique way. I wish you well in your learning journeys. Use what you can and modify, ignore, or discard the rest. Safe journeys! Also was editor of Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, who in number of hybrid (that is, blended) courses in higher education, possibly to include as many as 80 to 90 percent of all courses (Young, 2002). Five of us go out to field every day. Much of these pleas and pronouncements arise from concerns that youth are dropping out of schools and colleges due to dull curricula and a lack of meaningful and engaging activities. They help out with washing and cataloging finds from previous day work and preparing other finds from tumulus excavation for publication. While most field schools only take on students, in Albania we are offering students a chance to see what goes on after digging is over in addition to field experience of conducting an intensive survey. From such perspectives, there is a deep disconnect between what learners prefer in terms of tasks assigned, resources to accomplish those tasks, and the assessment of that work. We leave dig house at 6 a.m., just as sun peeks out over horizon and it is still relatively cool. project area is about an hour drive from dig house, - named Skanderbeg after Albanian national hero - and sleep or chat during trip. Unfortunately, this concern is arising at a time when the skills and competencies needed to be successful in the working world of adults are rising. Students desperately need skills in critical thinking, collaboration, leadership, evaluation, creativity, and problem solving. Many reports have documented that students are not workforce ready. Once we begin surveying agricultural fields, searching for any artifacts that appear on surface. We use a mobile differential GPS unit loaned to us by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology to collect detailed and precise information on size, shape, and location of survey tracts, as well as any sites or important features that we find. antenna for unit looks sort of like so whoever wears it each day tends to get a lot of strange looks from people we meet or cars driving by on main road through valley. |