Why do you need to know this?

For RMIT blended learning is ‘a formal education program in which a student learns in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace’ (RMIT 2018).

Blended Learning has become more important when we consider that throughout 2020 and 2021 education has predominantly taken place online or a mix of Face to Face and online delivery at the same time. The elements defining Blended learning have become key components of classroom and online education design.

Blended Learning Defined

The term is briefly defined by the Vic Gov. Department of Education and Early Childhood Development as:

“What is Blended Learning?

2.1 Blended Learning Defined

What is Blended Learning and why is it so hard to achieve consensus on its definition?

Historically, classroom teachers in Victoria, and indeed throughout Australia, have used a range of learning activities and resources to assist learners to achieve learning objectives. Face-to-face presentations, visual material, paper-based assessments, online research and group activities have been the mainstay of classroom teaching for many decades. More recently mobile technologies and collaborative Web 2.0 tools have expanded opportunities
for learning.

Blended learning is really no more than a combination of all of these approaches.”

Ref:

Vic Gov. Department of Education and Early Childhood DevelopmentBlended learning – A synthesis of research findings in Victorian education

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/documents/about/research/blendedlearning.pdf

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