Learning activities

The core of blended-learning is the integration of face-to-face and online learning activities [1]. Very often we want to have something fancy and very innovative in our online teaching, and don't think about consequences. We should realize that just an addition of activities which don't provoke deep learning can completely destroy the course outcome. In other words, the constructive alignment will be not established. In my opinion, the course content becomes more colorful and exciting if we think very carefully about each online activity which we offer to our students.  I looked through the Topic 4 literature and was quite surprised that it is mostly about how to establish an online course, but not how to integrate the learning activities smoothly into the course program. The organic integration of thoughtfully selected activities is one of the major constituents of our success with the blended learning. I imagine the laboratory balances where both sites of face-to-face and o