Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. What?

   • Formal education program
     • Blended learning is also used in professional development and training settings.

2. Instrument learning via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace

3. Terminology

   • Its terminology was not firmly established until about the start of 21st century
   • blended
   • hybrid
   • technology-mediated instruction
   • web-enhanced instruction
   • mixed-mode instruction

4. History

   • Technology-based instructor-led training in the 1960s on mainframes and mini-computers.

5. Models

   • Face-to-face driver
     • where the teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools
   • Self-blend
     • Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work
   • Rotation
     • students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time

6. Advantages

   • more effective than purely face-to-face or purely online classes
   • students can work on their own with new concepts which frees teachers
   • help all students reach their full potential
   • asynchronous Internet communication technology
   • facilitate a simultaneous independent and collaborative learning experience
   • students evaluate their understanding of course material via the use of "computer-based qualitative and quantitative assessment modules.