Effective use of ICT with campus based students

I read an interesting paper today  from esculate.ac.uk. I have read some of Anna Pincas before about older learners and ICT."  Information and communication technologies are increasingly used on campus often as optional ‘add-ons’ to face-to-face teaching (Saunders and Pincas 2003)  Now blended learning and multiple mode are being presented as the way forward in providing flexible and accessible learning for a widening audience. However, blended learning is more than merely mixing online learning with face-to-face methods. The term ‘blend’ indicates that there is a seamless transition between the different modes and it has been suggested that the learner should not feel any disruption as they move between the classroom and the Web."

This is a way of saying the tutor has the control over what they have to look for. In my experience with the first years on the 2+2 course a list of topics is all they need to find some excellent materials. It seems adults can develop critical evaluatrive skills through life experience.Altghough they feel like newbies to the web they do know what is good and adds to their topic.As  they redistribute their individual finds they create a well resourced course that gives an opportunity for all course members to see their choices and comment on them. 

Learners also need to understand the rationale for a blended course and there is evidence that a poorly blended course can cause confusion, especially for weaker/disadvantaged students (Hughes & Lewis, 2003).

Here is one for the glossary on my e learning course .when is blended learning not blended learning?
"There also needs to be much more discussion on the much touted term ‘blended learning’. The term is often used to describe mixed mode delivery where a course mixes face-to-face with some online delivery (usually of content). The term ‘blended’ implies a seamless transition between the different modes so that online work would be a continuation of face-to-face, and vice versa, and not an adjunct or optional extra. Examples of this more sophisticated approach to campus-based online learning are not easy to find: only 2 out 8 presentations of blended learning at the second seminar would fall under such a proper definition of blended learning"Pincas 2010