Volume : 8, Issue : 8, August - 2019

Blended Learning: A Transformative Potential for Higher Education

Dr Chintan Kishorbhai Vaghela

Abstract :

The term "Blended learning" speaks to a wide range of conveyance alternatives, tools, and teaching methods, however adroitly allude to guidance that is a blend or mixing of traditional face‐to‐face and online segments, substance and sources. Specialists like Horn and Staker (2011) characterize mixed learning as "at whatever point a student learns at any part to some degree at an oversaw ick‐and‐mortar zone a long way from home and any rate somewhat through online conveyance with some segment of learner direction after some time, spot, way, and moreover pace." Allen, Seaman, and Garrett (2007) further endeavour to measure the separation, characterising it as "between 30‐79% of substance conveyed online with outstanding bits conveyed by face‐to‐face or other non‐web‐based techniques" (Watson, 2008). In conclusion, Brew (2008) depicts blended learning as "coordinating on the web and face‐to‐face configurations to make a more successful learning background than either medium can deliver alone."