Blended Learning Concepts and Definitions
Which parts work and don’t work for you?
Which parts work and don’t work for you?
- Blended Learning is a formal education program in which a student learns:
Part away from home: In part in a brick-and-mortar location away from home.
Along a Learning Path: The modalities along a student’s learning path are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
Blended Learning Universe, https://www.blendedlearning.org/
- Blended learning, an approach that combines face-to-face instruction with technology-mediated learning.Edutopia, https://www.edutopia.org/blended-learning-resources#graph1
- Blended learning provides an easy method of converting a traditional lecture based course by simply video recording lectures.
- Blended learning is an education program (formal or non-formal) that combines online digital media with traditional classroom methods. It requires the physical presence of both teacher and student, with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning
- Blended Learning is fundamentally different and is not simply an add-on to the dominant approach.
- In blended learning the lower and simpler the technology level the better. We are always designing and working to the lowest common denominator.
- Blended Learning:
-Goes beyond enhancing the traditional classroom lecture Blended Learning in Higher Education, Garrison, Norman & Vaughan, 2008
- Blended learning is the intentional integration of synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection Norman Vaughan http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/4/4/247
- Blended learning simply implies “bolting” technology onto a traditional course, using digital technologies as an add-on to teach a difficult concept, or adding supplemental information. Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection Norman Vaughan http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/4/4/247
- Blended learning should be viewed as an opportunity to redesign how courses are developed, scheduled, and delivered through a combination of physical and virtual instruction: “bricks and clicks”. Joining the best features of in-class teaching with the best features of online learning that promote active, self-directed learning opportunities with added flexibility should be the goal of this redesigned approach. Ron Bleed Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection Norman Vaughan http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/4/4/247
- Blended learning offers potential for improving how we deal with content, social interaction, reflection, higher order thinking, problem solving, collaborative learning, and more authentic assessment in higher education, which could potentially lead to a greater sense of student engagement. Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection Norman Vaughan http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/4/4/247