BLENDED LEARNING

BLENDED LEARNING

1. Definition

   • Formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace

2. Advantages

   • More effective than purely face-to-face or purely online classes
   • Students can work on their own
   • Reduce educational expenses
     • putting classrooms in the online space
     • replaces pricey textbooks with electronic devices that students often bring themselves to class
   • advance the skills of talented student
   • One instructor can teach so many people
   • Collects student data and measures academic progress
   • Tests are automatically scored and providing instantaneous feedback.

3. Disadvantages

   • Students falling behind on the materials
   • More time-consuming when electronic media are used
   • group work cannot be done because of difficulties with management in an online setting

4. Model

   • Face-to-face driver
   • Rotation
   • Flex
   • Labs
   • Self-blend
   • Online Driver

5. History

   • 1970s
     • Mainframe-based training had a number of interface limitations that gave way to satellite-based live video
   • 1990s
     • CD-ROMs emerged as a dominant form of providing technology-based learning as bandwidth through 56k modems weren’t able to support very high quality sound and video
   • 1988s
     • AICC, Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee, was formed

6. Flipped Classroom

   • Instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom