Blended Learning

Blended learning is a term increasingly used to describe the way e-learning is being combined with traditional classroom methods and independent study to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology.

A learning model in three parts

Blended learning has three primary components:

• In-person classroom activities facilitated by a trained educator.
• Online learning materials, often including pre-recorded lectures given by that same instructor.
• Structured independent study time guided by the material in the lectures and skills developed during the classroom experience.

Blended learning redefining teaching roles

In some situations, the move to blended learning has inspired educators to redefine traditional roles. The word “facilitator” has emerged as an alternative to “teacher,” bringing it a slightly different focus. In this thing, the role of teacher as “facilitator” is a teacher gives students to play the role activity in learning process. This case based on experiment and practice using some things, for example, students can play role-play, dramatization, strip story, group work, pair work and so on.

Facilitators focus on four key areas:                 

a.     Development of online and offline course content

b. Facilitation of communication with and among students, including the pedagogy of communicating content online without the contextual clues students would get in person.

c.    Guiding the learning experience of individual students, and customizing material wherever possible to strengthen the learning experience

d.   Assessment and grading, not unlike the expectations for teachers within the traditional framework.

The definition of blended learning is formal education program. In this case, a student learns:

a.       At least in part through online learning with some element of student control

b.      At least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home

c.       And the modalities along each student’s learning

Therefore, there are four majorities of blended-learning programs, namely Rotation, Flex, A La Carte and Enriched Virtual. The rotation model includes four sub-models: Station Rotation, Lab Rotation, Flipped Classroom, and Individual Classroom.

1.      Rotation Model

2.      Flex Model

3.      La Carte Model

4.      Enriched Virtual