What is, apart from the obvious time and space conveniences, so instantly appealing about a blended learning environment?
What does this question assume? What are its underpinnings?
- familiarity with face-to-face and online instruction (synchronous and asynchronous), and belief in the legitimacy (though not necessarily equal legitimacy) of both
- learning goals differ in kind and require different approaches to instruction
- learning is multimodal - it occurs within and on many fronts - and is enhanced as access to those fronts expand
- true assessment of learning requires that students be given multiple opportunities and venues to express what they’ve learned
- instructional theories are not religions, and a versatile environment(s) can accommodate their amalgam
- teaching requires bridging subject matter and student
- learning is most effective with that bridge in tact as well as others that connect student to teacher, student to student and student to community
- interconnections are more valuable than exclusivity
- tailoring instruction is beneficial
- synergies between the ways students live and the ways they can learn are worth exploiting