BLENDED LEARNING

BLENDED LEARNING

1. formal education program that student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction

   • via digital and online media
     • some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.

2. also used in professional development and training settings,

3. ADVANTAGES

   • students can work on their own with new concepts
     •  frees teachers up to circulate and support individual students who may need individualized attention
   • facilitate a simultaneous independent and collaborative learning experience.
     • major contributor to student satisfaction and success in such courses
   • improve student attitudes towards learning
   • improve communication between lecturers and part-time students
   • lower cost
     • lower costs by putting classrooms in the online space and it essentially replaces pricey textbooks with electronic devices 

4. DISADVANTAGES

   • difficult in group work
   • lecturers recording teaching makes student falling behind on the material
   • new cost as a service providers may charge user fee to educate

5. Blended learning can generally be classified into six models

   • Face-to-face drive
     •  where the teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools.
   • Rotation
     • students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time
   • Flex
     • Most of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform and teachers are available for face-to-face consultation and support
   • Labs
     • All of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform but in a consistent physical location. Students usually take traditional classes in this model as well
   • Self-blend
     •  Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work
   • Online driver
     •  Students complete an entire course through an online platform with possible teacher check-ins. All curriculum and teaching is delivered via a digital platform and face-to-face meetings are scheduled or made available if necessary.

6. successful participants in this 21st century global society must be able to

   • develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology
   • build intentional cross- cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought
   • design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
   • manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
   • create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts
   • attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments