BLENDED LEARNING

BLENDED LEARNING

1. DEFINITION : a formal education program, student can learn instruction via digital and online media

   • blended learning has led to difficulties
     • used in professional development and training settings

2. MODELS

   • Face-to-face driver
     • The teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools..
   • Flex
     • students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time
   • Labs
     • the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform but in a consistent physical location.Students take traditional classes
   • 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.
   • Rotation
     • Students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time..
   • Self-blend
     • Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work..

3. ADVANTAGES

   • available curricula use educational technology to advance their skills or exceed grade restrictions.
   • allows students to work at their own pace
   • the potential to reduce educational expenses
   • Lower costs by putting classroom in the online space

4. DISADVANTAGES

   • can be challenging is group work because of difficulties with management in an online setting.

5. 21ST CENTURY

   • develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology
     • build intentional cross- cultural connections and relationships with others
       • 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

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