The Blended Learning Model: Does It Work?

Abstract

The advances in information and communicate on technologies have led to the development of wide spectrum of new techniques, methods and models of education. One of these promising approaches in education is blended learning. Although the blended learning model is not new, it produces new kinds of learning experiences and encompasses a much richer set of learning strategies or "dimensions."It maximizes the benefits of traditional and electronic delivery platforms, while diminishing the weaknesses of each. The aim of the present paper is to provide practitioners and researchers with a comprehensive framework outlining its basic characteristics and the rationale for adopting it. It also presents a multi-stage process model of it to identify the activities, actors, and key success factors associated with how best to set it up. It also outlines framework for how to evaluate the different interventions aiming at developing it.