Blended learning

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Target Participants:
TUELC Instructors.
Blended Learning.
Workshop Title:

4. Blended Learning
Workshop
Dr. Hamada Saeed
Speaker
Dr. Al-Fatih Gadallah
Academic Supervisor, TUELC
Dr. Mahamoud Abdul-Mon’em
TU Project Manager
Muhammad Samir
Curriculum & Testing Unit Member, TUELC
Keynote Speaker
Eid Arafa
Speaker
Assem Al-Nag’awy
Speaker
Yasser Ali
IT Supporter
October 19, Wednesday
7:30 PM

5. Blended Learning Workshop!

6. Blended Learning.
• Workshop Objectives:
• What? Why? How?
• Needed Skills.
• Benefits of Blended Learning
• Unexpected benefits!
• Important elements gained from online learning.
• Models of Blended Learning.
• Barriers /Challenges.
• Recommendations.
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7. Blended Learning
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It has been around for a long time, but its terminology was not
firmly established until around the last decade of the 20th and
the beginning of the 21st century.
What is Blended Learning?
 Blended learning, sometimes known as hybrid learning, is a
teaching and learning model that has a face-to-face class or
tutorial component combined with an online learning
component.

8. Why do we need Blended Learning?
Blended learning helps the learning process to:
• Be more effective for adult learners than only face-to-face
learning.
• Run “Make up” classes.
• Make homework more convenient and appealing.
• Enable easier monitoring of student progress.
• Enable students to acquire digital literacy/digital readiness, and
needed skills for “Online Learning”. 7

9. How to use Blended learning.
Using Blended learning depends on:
• What technology and web access you have in your classroom, and
what kinds of technology and web access students have at home,
work; at their public library, community computing center, or
elsewhere.
You could give directions for how to do these digital tasks:
• Get a unique educational email address, e.g. Gmail.
• Log onto the web page for the first time.
• Access your online web page with assignments and learning resources.
• Navigate to assignments or relevant learning resources.
• Find weekly assignments, learning resources, and assessments. 8

10. Needed Skills for Online Learning
• How to click on a link that takes one outside the learning site.
• Know how to scroll down a page.
• Know how to save written work.
• Quickly access an online dictionary and encyclopedia.
• Know conventions of websites & how to navigate them.
• Create, save and find an effective user ID & password.
• Know how to return to the learning online site.
• Know how to use tab browsing. 9

11. Benefits of Blended Learning
• For learners:
• Increased flexibility to fit learning around their lives, other commitments, own preferences.
• Increased opportunities to develop digital skills.
• Increased opportunities to develop independent learning skills .
• Easier access to resources & material to support their learning.
• Wider access to learning; more inclusive, ‘location agnostic’ .
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For academic staff :
• More effective use of digital tools.
• More improvement in staff digital skills & confidence.
• Courses continuity.
• Professional collaboration.
• Cross-site collaboration.

12. Unexpected benefits!
 Take up virtual counselling and support services higher than expected.
 For the more motivated learners, this provides opportunities to progress
at a faster pace.
 Use of digital technologies to support teaching practitioners’ reflection
and peer review (recording & reviewing lessons).
 Share experiences such as guest speakers and virtual visits.
 Enable instructors to create viable courses by working across
geographical boundaries.
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13. The important elements gained from online learning:
• Developing learners’ digital skills & self-efficacy.
• Wider access to learning / increase accessibility for individuals.
• Encouraging more effective / efficient use of digital tools.
• Opportunities for independent learning.
• Saving travel time & cost.
• Use of recordings & asynchronous activities to support ‘stretch
& challenge’, catch-up & faster/slower pace of learning.
• Use flipped approach to make the best use of face-to-face
opportunities. 12

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Models of Blended Learning
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Fully Virtual
A student who is considered
fully virtual means that all
classes are completed online
from home or another
location, and student is not
required to attend any classes
in a physical school building

15. Flipped Classroom
(Blended Learning)
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 In “Flipped” Classrooms students use
online instructional resources that have
been assigned through a Learning
Management System (LMS).
 Teachers support online learning
with face-to-face instruction.
 The face-to-face time is structured
to include activities, practice with feedback,
and collaborative tasks/projects.

16. Flex Model (Blended Learning)
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 A “Flex” model uses a Learning Management System
(LMS) to deliver instructional content and activities.
 Student learning can be completed at
their own pace and choice in online
activities which allows for differentiation.
 Student learning is supported by face-to-face instruction
that is varied based on date.
 Teachers use flexible grouping to provide differentiated
activities.

17. Station/ Lab Rotation(Blended Learning)
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 Students rotate through a teacher-led station, collaborative work, and
independent online instruction within a class period.
 The online station may be in a computer lab or in a classroom utilizing one-
to-one devices, or a bank of devices, where students complete assignments
or instructional explorations at their own pace.

18. Barriers to effective use of blended learning
 Digital access for users (e.g. equipment / connectivity).
 Lack of access to appropriate study spaces (for learners).
 Digital infrastructure (onsite and/or remote).
 Staff skills & confidence.
 ‘Hidden costs’ & resourcing challenges .
 Culture and perceptions regarding blended learning, online learning & remote
working.
 “Some learners don’t suit remote learning; may have complex needs and chaotic
environments. Being in a face-to-face class is important as an escape from home
situations, opportunity for social interaction etc.” 17

19. Recommendations
• Use Blended Learning in developing Language skills in the field of
talented students and learning disabilities.
• Ensure reliability of quizzes on online platforms.
• Make Blended Learning more engaging for students without boring
them.
• we need more workshops in different topics like:
 Needed Skills for English instructors to confront the barriers of
Blended Learning.
How English instructors acquire new skills to develop EFL
learner.
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20. Thank you
for
Fruitful
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