Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. Models

   • 1. Although there is little consensus on the definition of blended learning and some academic studies have suggested it is a redundant term. 2.There are distinct blended learning models that have been suggested by some researchers and educational think tanks.
   • Face-to-face driver
     • Students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time
   • Rotation
     • Most of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform and teachers are available for face-to-face consultation and support
   • Flex
     • 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.
   • Labs
     • Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work
   • Self-blend
   • Online driver
     • Where the teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools

2. Advantages

   • More effective
   • Reduce educational expenses
   • Independent learning experience
   • allows students to work at their own pace

3. 21st Century Literacies

   • By The National Council of Teachers of English to describe the social nature of learning that is supported by the ability to collaborate using digital technologies in learning
   • Develop proficiency and fluency
   • Build intentional cross
   • Design and share information
   • Manage, analyze and synthesize
   • Create, critique, analyze and evaluate
   • Attend to the ethical responsibilities

4. History

   • 1.  As an alternative to instructor-led training in the 1960s on mainframes and mini-computers.  2.
   • Scale
     •  where as one instructor can only teach so many people
   • Developed
     • PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)

5. Digital natives

   • Born in the last twenty years in first world countries
   • Mobile technologies
     • Allow digital natives to access information quickly

6. Community

   • Virtual Learning Environment
     • Helps connect professors with students without physically being present, thus making this a 'Virtual Cafe'
   • School

7. Disadvantages

   • New Costs
   • Difficulties with management in an online setting
   • more time-consuming

8. Terminology

   • Used interchangeably in research literature
     • Blended
     • Hybrid
     • Technology-mediated instruction
     • Web-enhanced instruction
     • mixed-mode instruction
   • The concept has been around for a long time
     • but its terminology was not firmly established until about the start of 21st century
   • "combining Internet and digital media with established classroom forms that require the physical co-presence of teacher and students."

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