Using blended learning to increase learner support and improve retention

Using blended learning to increase learner support and improve retention

Improving retention and identifying ‘at risk’ learners are high profile issues in higher education, and a proposed solution is to provide good learner support. Blending of online learning with classroom sessions offers the potential to use a virtual learning environment to deliver learning activities, and to support learners using a distance learning model. Online tracking can also help to targ...

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...

Learning to Support Another Learner

Learners such as humans and intelligent agents, often require support to perform complex tasks in real world environments. Inaccessible states and the complexity of tasks add to this requirement. Large state and action spaces associated with the environments also contribute to this need for support. In this paper, we present a design of a learning agent that learns from the environment in order...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

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