BLENDED LEARNING
Online tutors plug in to save tertiary scene
Blended learning involves far more than electronically delived course notes — it hands students the reins to learning, writes Felicity Coughlan
A current buzz word in the education space is "blended learning", but very few people would have heard this term before the higher education crisis forced the hand of public universities to introduce this delivery method ahead of 2016’s final exams. It is expected that higher education institutions will increasingly incorporate blended learning into their programmes. As one institution noted during the nationwide protests against student fees, teaching and learning would be "taking place by means of a variety of different approaches, including blended learning, which relies heavily on digital and online materials. Each faculty and discipline is developing its own approach to teaching and is communicating with its students accordingly."
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