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Negotiating A New Blend In Blended Learning: Research Roots, Laura Fuller
Negotiating A New Blend In Blended Learning: Research Roots, Laura Fuller
Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges
Blended learning has a muddled history but is still evolving. Technological innovations and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 led higher education to create a new blend to blended learning, one that did not follow the generally accepted and most numerous definitions or previous examples of blended learning. This new blend of blended learning lacks the physical environment and face-to-face instruction and consists of all computer-mediated instruction in the form of both asynchronous online instruction and synchronous instruction via videoconferencing and computerized webinar tools. This arrival of a new blend of blended learning requires educators to develop and implement a new …