Blended learning combines both face-to-face instruction and online learning, allowing students flexibility in their learning. It provides benefits such as flexibility, teacher empowerment through technology, student engagement, differentiation of instruction, and cost effectiveness. Teachers require skills in technology, communication, organization, and teaching to implement blended learning effectively. Tools like laptops, projectors, and video cameras facilitate blended learning.
Blended learning combines both face-to-face instruction and online learning, allowing students flexibility in their learning. It provides benefits such as flexibility, teacher empowerment through technology, student engagement, differentiation of instruction, and cost effectiveness. Teachers require skills in technology, communication, organization, and teaching to implement blended learning effectively. Tools like laptops, projectors, and video cameras facilitate blended learning.
Blended learning combines both face-to-face instruction and online learning, allowing students flexibility in their learning. It provides benefits such as flexibility, teacher empowerment through technology, student engagement, differentiation of instruction, and cost effectiveness. Teachers require skills in technology, communication, organization, and teaching to implement blended learning effectively. Tools like laptops, projectors, and video cameras facilitate blended learning.
Blended learning combines both face-to-face instruction and online learning, allowing students flexibility in their learning. It provides benefits such as flexibility, teacher empowerment through technology, student engagement, differentiation of instruction, and cost effectiveness. Teachers require skills in technology, communication, organization, and teaching to implement blended learning effectively. Tools like laptops, projectors, and video cameras facilitate blended learning.
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Definition of Blended Learning
The term “blended learning,” also referred to as “hybrid learning,” represents a combination of F2F and online learning activities where computer-mediated activities replace “seat-time” in the classroom. It is the “blend” that makes each course unique; thus, blended/hybrid courses can take on different attributes. For example, a course might include online discussions, tutorials and research activities, and student responses to video.
2. Benefits of blended learning
1. Flexibility Blended learning classes offer flexibility for teachers in presenting material and for students, they can learn with their own pace. Therefore blended learning proves to have an effective learning outcome.
2. Teacher-empowerment By incorporating technology into classroom instruction, teachers are freed up to reach more students and can easily interact with students and check on progress.
3. Engagement Because most students today are surrounded by technology in everyday life, they engage more easily with material when technology is incorporated in instructional settings. Additionally, students can expand their technological skills and competency with technology.
4. Differentiation High-quality digital educational tools allow teachers to measure each student’s learning level and to provide appropriate lesson materials for them.
5. Effectiveness
Blended learning become popular in higher education because they are effective for reducing costs, distributing quality education, and solving distance problems. 3. Teachers Skills needed for blended learning
Computer skills ( ICT skills)
Communication skills Search skills Time-management skills Teaching skills (Enjoy communicating your understanding to others.) Organizations skills Feed-back
Teachers should be able to use various platforms such as email, zoom, Microsoft team, Google classroom, Facebook closed groups for successful teaching.
4. Tools needs for blended learning
- Phone - Laptop - Computer - Projector / power point - Recording device - Video camera
Importance of blended learning
Years ago, a teacher may have spent days explaining a math concept with an overhead projector. It was difficult to assess student understanding. Today, blended learning can help teachers to more accurately assess the student's knowledge and help to teach concepts more efficiently. With schools all over the world redesigning because of COVID-19, blended learning is becoming a new normal. When social distancing becomes important in day-to-day lives, many universities shifted to blended learning and that helps students to learn while keeping a safe distance from others. 1. Enjoy communicating your understanding to others.
There is definitely a performance element to most teaching. Our section on interpersonal skills, including effective speaking, covers this in more detail, and there is a great deal of overlap with presentation skills.
2. Have confidence.
You will need the confidence to look calm and professional even when tired and stressed. See our page: Building Confidence for more information.
3. Have great organisational skills.
Have you prepared for the session and done any marking in time?
Have you kept what is needed for anyone in the group who was away?
If you are part of a teaching organisation, have you fed back results to any interested colleagues?
You may find our page: Organising Skills useful.
4. Work effectively in groups.
In a school or college, you may be part of a group that teach at your level or within your subject. If so, you will have to agree between you what is to be taught and how to deal with any difficulties.
See our page: Groups and Teams for an introduction to effective team working skills.
5. Be able to deal with conflict.
There may be students who need to be told to work harder, or a disagreement between students that you need to help to sort out.
Our page on Conflict Resolution provides some advice on how to do this.
6. Motivate your students to do their best.
This may require encouragement and/ or criticism, and probably a bit of both at different times.
Our page on Motivation Skills provides more information.
7. Empathise with your Students.
If you can see that your students are exhausted, there may be no point in trying to teach a very complicated topic. You need to create a feeling that you are all working together towards the same goal. This means building up trust and rapport.
See our pages on Empathy and Building Rapport for more.
8. Give feedback.
Whether this takes the form of comments on performance or marking written work, it needs to be constructive. Offer praise as well as criticism whenever possible and tell your students how they can improve.
