Defining Blended Learning - Blackboard Blog - 1 views
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The Clayton Christensen Institute created one of the most commonly accepted definitions: “A formal education program in which a student learns At part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; At least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; And the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.”
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iNACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, recently defined Blended Learning as “A combination of face-to-face learning experiences and online learning platforms, content, and tools for personalizing instruction,” going on to say that “True blended learning is a modality to realize a fundamental shift in the instructional model toward personalized learning.”
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The Sloan Consortium has for years, including in its most recent survey report, Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, used a more cut-and-dry approach. They define Blended Learning as “instruction that has between 30 and 80 percent of the course content delivered online,” as contrasted with online courses, in which 80 percent is delivered online, and face-to-face instruction, in which zero to 29 percent of the content is delivered online.
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If you are involved in blended learning in any capacity, you know that there are as many different perceptions and definitions of blended instruction as there are clouds in the sky. This recent blog post by Mark Bellas on the Blackboard blog does a nice job of bringing together a few different definitions, adding one of his own, and then asking which one best captures your experience with blended instruction. So, how about it? Which one resonates most with your blended learning approach?
