Media Literacy Education for Trainers

Blended learning describes a fundamental change in education design by utilising a combination of digital learning objects and active learning methods to improve the learning experience and outcomes. A teaching session created with a blended learning model uses the face-to-face teaching time for activities that benefit the most from direct interaction.

Another Youtube video, Blended Learning & flipped classroom, explains what Blended Leaning is in detail, and especially illustrates one of its main models – Flipped Classroom- which is the most commonly used and proven to be fruitful.

What is blended learning? Blended learning is an education technique involving a combination of online materials and in-person instruction. Flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students view their lecture material at home and do coursework in class. Find more videos at http://osms.it/more.

Finally, this third clip, Blended Learning: Making it Work in Your Classroom, produced by Edutopia, is an example of what Blended Learning looks in a classroom, and defines it as follows:

A school-wide approach to blended learning that allows teachers the flexibility to define and implement online instruction that meets their students’ needs.