Blended Learning Program Development

Develop and improve teaching and learning through blended learning Teaching Development and Improvement through Blended Learning

Introduction: E-learning is being replaced with traditional methods. The e-learning also has its own limitations and cannot be replaced by traditional education, completely. The educational experts try to mix e-learning and traditional learning in different ways, despite the advantages and disadvantages of the both methods. This article aims to introduce and evaluate blended learning approac...

Exploring Task-Based Curriculum Development in a Blended-Learning Conversational Chinese Program

This paper brings task-based language teaching (TBLT) curriculum development principles into the blended learning context, presenting processes and outcomes from a project to develop a task-based thematic unit — asking and giving directions — in a hybrid web-based university-level class focused on listening and speaking skills in Mandarin Chinese. The authors follow the principled task-based cu...

Blended vs. Lecture Learning: Outcomes for Staff Development Abstract Blended vs. Lecture Learning: Outcomes for Staff Development

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to show my deepest gratitude to Dr. Linda Comer for her mentoring and guidance, and to acknowledge Professor Helen Freeman and Dr. Lorene Putnam for their ongoing support as members of my thesis committee. Thank you also to Helen Freeman for use of the posttest she originally developed for critical care nurses. I would also like to acknowledge Barbara Radford, BSN, ...

Blended Learning

Blended Learning or E-learning?

ICT or Information and Communication Technology has pervaded the fields of education. In recent years the term “e-learning” has emerged as a result of the integration of ICT in the education fields. Following the application this technology into teaching, some pitfalls have been identified and this have led to the “Blended learning” phenomenon. However, the preference on this new method has bee...