What is Blended Learning Approach
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What is a Blended Learning Approach?
Unit 1 Objectives:
- The learner will define the blended learning approach.
Activity:
What words come to minds when you hear "blended learning"?
Responses are to be written here Word Association
What is a Blended Learning Approach?
Blended Learning is an approach that resides inside the classroom and is designed to incorporate and integrate face-to-face and online interaction. It is not your traditional classroom. It is an engaging classroom community that focuses on active student learning and collaboration. Blended learning integrates online content with traditional face-to-face class activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable manner. Blended classroom uses online technology to transform and improve the learning process. Content providers and teaching inform each other to make the most of face-to-face teaching. It is engaging approach because it is based off the student. It is a classroom that combines (blends) online and face-to-face delivery. Content is provided to the learner by a "provider" (computer based program) and is individualized to that student. With the content providers information the teacher is able to group the students based off their needs and creates an efficiency to the face-to-face time.
Read the following:
- Blended Learning in Higher Education - Introduction of book - D. Randy Garrison & Norman D. Vaughn
- Blended Learning: Uncovering its transformation potential in higher education - D. Randy Garrison & Heather Kannuka
Watch this video The Basics of Blended Learning
After reading you will choose a few characteristics that resonates with you and post your own characteristics of a Blended Learning Approach here: Blended Learning Definition
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