Blended Learning (formal education program)

Blended Learning (formal education program)

1. Models

   • 1. Face-to-face driver
   • 2. Rotation
   • 3. Flex
   • 4. Labs
   • 5. Self-blend
   • 6. Online driver

2. Advantages

   • Students can work on their own
   • Teachers can now streamline their instruction to help all students reach their full potential.
   • Improve student attitudes towards learning.
   • Students were able to better evaluate their understanding of course material
   • Lower costs

3. Disadvantages

   • Strong dependence
   • Serve as a significant barrier for students
   • Challenging in group work
   • More expensive

4. Community

   • Helps develop a better feel for an online community
   • Helps connect professors with students without physically being present
   • Positive results from the online community

5. Digital natives

   • Thought to be adept users of technology
   • Feasible for blended learning to become part of the digital native’s learning
   • Active users of IT

6. 21st Century Literacies

   • Develop proficiency
   • Build intentional cross
   • Design and share information for global communities
   • Manage, analyze and synthesize
   • Create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts
   • Attend to the ethical responsibilities