Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery mode suggests there is nothing more to a blended course than where students meet and how they use technology. Ultimately there is a risk that blended courses defined in this way will not utilize effective strategies that h...

This paper describes the conversion of an introductory computing course to the blended learning model at a small, public liberal arts college. Blended learning significantly reduces face-to-face instruction by incorporating rich, online learning experiences. We provide the motivation for the change and report initial results from a pilot study. More specifically, we compare student learning out...

Adoption of blended learning is a complex process for higher education institutions and academic staff. Although the move towards blended learning is generally instigated at institutional level, factors determining its success and minimising resistance of faculty often emerge at delivery level. This paper explores adoption of blended learning practices in a Business School at a university in th...

Experience has shown that instructor-led trainings have some advantages thatcannot easily be overcome by technology enhanced learning. Direct interaction with aninstructor and among the group is often perceived as motivating and more personal. For smallgroups, in-class trainings can be more cost effective. On-line learning often requires aconsiderable amount of self-management a...

The article deals with blended learning in the context of pre-graduate English language teacher education. Firstly, the concept of blended learning is defined, then, the attention is focused on the online component of a blend, namely on the issue of interpersonal interaction including the challenges, which learning through online networking poses. Finally, results of a small–scale research are ...

Blended e-Learning, which is a blended learning mode with offline and online learning, has been expanded in terms of quality and quantity as well to improve the quality of university education in South Korea. It is recently considered as an important strategy and a policy to innovate university education because of its potential to compensate lacks of offline face-to-face learning. The purpose ...

This paper describes a blended learning implementation and experience supported with intelligent learning environments included in a learning management system (LMS) called @KU-UZEM. The blended learning model is realized as a combination of face to face education and e-learning. The intelligent learning environments consist of two applications named CTutor, ITest. In addition to standard e-lea...

In order to construct a suitable scaffold for corneal cell culture and transplantation in vitro, different chitosan-chondroitin sulfate blended membranes were prepared and the properties of blended membranes were studied. Corneal stroma cells and corneal endothelial cells were seeded onto the blended membrane surface and the effects of the blended membranes on corneal cell attachment and metabo...

Blended teaching is prevailing among universities. This mode can improve translation training effectiveness and facilitate the construction of discipline. However, problems in blended are becoming increasingly prominent. As far as concerned, there some general such inaccurate cognition concept "blending", low degree online offline integration teacher-centered instead student-centered learning. ...

Education is experiencing a paradigm shift towards blended learning models in technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Despite the potential benefits of blended learning, it also entails additional complexity in terms of monitoring, awareness and reflection, as learning happens across different spaces and modalities. In recent years, literature on Learning Analytics (LA) and Educational Data Mining ...