Blended Learning

Blended Learning

1. INTRODUCTION

   • Formal education program

2. TERMINOLOGY

   • not firmly established until about the start of 21st century
   • used interchangeably in research literature
   • the term appears in a press release in 1999

3. HISTORY

   • 1960
     • Technology-based training emerged as an alternative to instructor-led training in the on mainframes and mini-computers
   • 1970
     • Mainframe-based training had a number of interface limitations that gave way to satellite-based live video
   • 1990
     • 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
   • 1988
     • The aviation industry used this heavily to track how well one did on courses, how much time was spent, and where someone left off. AICC, Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee

4. MODEL

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

5. ADVANTAGES

   • more effective than purely face-to-face
   • student satisfaction
   • score in test
   • impove student on learning
   • improve their communications

6. DISADVANTAGES

   • always need to update
   • more expensive
   • more time consuming that traditional methods