Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. Blending learning can be classified into six models.

   • face-to-face driver
     •  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

2. Advantage

   • is more effective than face-to-face classes.
   • lower costs
   • improve student attitudes towards learning
   • communication between lecturers and student improved.
   • easy learning.

3. Disadvantage

   • difficult in group work.
   • lecturers recording teaching makes student falling behind on the materials.
   • new costs as the service providers may charges user fee to educate.

4. According do NCTE, Active, 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.[41]

5. is defined as "combining Internet and digital media with established classroom forms that require the physical co-presence of teacher and students".