Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. definition

   • Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media.

2. Models

   • Face-to-face driver - 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 - delivered via a digital platform and teachers are available for face-to-face consultation and support
   • 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.

3. Advantages

   • students can work on their own with new concepts
   • allows students to work at their own pace,
   • allows for personalized education, replacing the model
   • reallocate resources to boost student achievement outcomes

4. Disadvantages

   • IT literacy can serve as a significant barrier
   • challenging is group work because of difficulties with management in an online setting.
   • consuming that traditional methods and can also come with new costs as e-learning platforms
   • technologies can result in students falling behind on the materials.

5. 21st 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. digital native

   • digital natives are active users of IT, they create and share their own work, as opposed to being passive consumers of the work of other digital non-natives.

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