17 What is Blended Learning?

Chapter Objectives

• Define blended learning
• Survey various models of blended learning
• Identify opportunities and benefits to a blended learning approach
• Start to consider feasible pedagogical approaches for blended learning

Observe & Consider

What is Blended Learning?

Blended learning is a course design approach that fundamentally restructures class hours and the course environment by integrating face-to-face and online interaction. Blended learning leverages the strengths of online and face-to-face interactions to promote student engagement and help achieve the learning goals of the course. The blended learning course design process focuses on:

• Developing a conscious, pre-planned, and streamlined blended course plan unique for your course
• Questioning what is necessary to do in the classroom and how face-to-face hours are best used
• Thinking outside the box of both the traditional in-class lecture and only online-based learning
• Redesigning based on learning goals and expected student outcomes, rather than content
• Focusing on active student learning and collaboration
• Sustaining an engaged classroom community beyond the confines of a traditional classroom

Share & Connect

Word Association Activity

What words come to mind when you hear “blended learning”? List any and all below, and we will collect these into a word cloud to show our collective word associations with blended learning!

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