BLENDED LEARNING

BLENDED LEARNING

1. Formal education program

2. Advantage

   • Lower costs by putting classrooms in the online space
   • Software that automatically collects student data and measures academic progress, providing teachers, students and parents detailed students data
     • Tests are automatically scored, providing instantaneous feedback
   • Allows for personalized education, replacing the model
   • Some online institutions connect students with instructors via web conference technology to form a digital classroom

3. Disadvantages

   • Can be challenging is group work because of difficulties with management in an online setting
   • It has been noted that providing effective feedback is more time-consuming
   • Using e-learning platforms can be more time consuming that traditional methods and
   • Can also come with new costs as e-learning platforms and service providers may charge user fees to educators.

4. Models

   • Flex : most of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform and teachers are available for face-to-face consultation and support
   • Rotation : students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time
   • Face-to-face driver : where the teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools
   • 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
   • Online driver : Students complete an entire course through an online platform with possible teacher check-ins
   • Self-blend : Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work

5. Professional development and training settings, as it can be used to translate knowledge into a particular skill that is useful and practical for a specific job.

6. Attending a "brick-and-mortar" school structure, face-to-face classroom methods are combined with computer-mediated activities.

7. History

   • PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), a system developed by the University of Illinois and Control Data.
   • Mainframe-based training had a number of interface limitations that gave way to satellite-based live video in the 1970s.