EXPLORING TEACHING APPROACHES IN BLENDED LEARNING

Abstract

Blended learning is becoming increasingly popular in higher education. The purpose of this study is to explore the pedagogical use of ICT in a blended learning context. Focusing on teachers’ and students’ experience, we examined the following questions: What are the students’ and teachers’ experience in engaging with different blended learning modes? What are the teaching approaches involved in blended learning across disciplines? Four teaching approaches, namely, providing online resources, supporting specific pedagogy, focusing on online discussion, and enhancing course management and delivery, emerged from the results of ten case studies. These approaches are pedagogical practices in transition and provide empirical evidence to shed light on issues in the research and practice of blended learning in higher education.