Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. a formal education program in which a student learns through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media.

   • definition

2. 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.[21] All curriculum and teaching is delivered via a digital platform and face-to-face meetings are scheduled or made available if necessary.[

3. advantages

   • result in high levels of student achievement
   • can work on their own with new concepts
   • streamline their instruction to help all students reach their full potential.
   • higher education courses serves
   • improve student attitudes towards learning
   • communication between lecturers and part-time students has improved
   • the potential to reduce educational expenses

4. disadvantages

   • a strong dependence on the technical resources or tools
   • IT literacy can serve as a significant barrier for students attempting
   • difficulties with management in an online setting.
   • students falling behind on the materials.
   • more time-consuming (and therefore more expensive) when electronic media are used, in comparison to traditional

5. Century Literacies

   • 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

6. Use of mobile technologies including tablets and cellphones allow digital natives to access information quickly, so that it is feasible for blended learning to become part of the digital native’s learning process.

   • digital natives