{"id":17879,"date":"2014-05-05T17:52:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:20","slug":"blended-learning-budding-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/blended-learning-budding-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Blended Learning Budding Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blended, also called hybrid, learning is started to bud out this spring in the field of lifelong learning.<a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blended.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1303\" alt=\"blended\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/blended-300x127.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first programs to offer blended courses are being reported.\u00a0 For example, the first association is reporting a planned blended course to start by the end of this year.<br \/>\nOzzie Logozzo, a LERN member and association executive head of the Ontario Real Estate College in Toronto, Canada, told LERN recently,\u00a0\u201cWe offer courses via correspondence, classroom and online and have done so since 1997.\u00a0 We are currently mapping out a fourth delivery methodology for elite students who can handle blended learning in a virtual classroom.\u00a0 We anticipate that we will be able to pilot this product by year\u2019s end.\u201d<br \/>\nThe topic of blended courses was a hot one at the recent LERN Leader Retreat in Tucson. LERN predicts that every program will make every face-to-face or in-person course blended in the next five years.<br \/>\nBlended courses engage participants and the teacher in an online classroom between in-person class meetings.\u00a0 Depending on the instructor and the course content, online activities may include instructor presentations, readings, quizzes and online discussion.<br \/>\nParticipants, studies show, actually learn more in blended courses than they do in either totally in-person courses or even totally online courses. Popular with both teachers and learners, blended courses generally cut the number of face-to-face class meetings by a third or half and still increase the learning.<br \/>\nOne financial advantage of blended courses is your program can put twice as many courses into the same amount of physical classroom space, thus increasing income without needing more space or incurring more space costs.<br \/>\nOne marketing advantage of blended courses is that participants favor them, cutting down on babysitters, gas, travel time, and vending machine snacks.\u00a0 Teachers favor them for the same reasons, getting the same pay for less travel time and costs.<br \/>\nCERTIFICATE IN BLENDED INSTRUCTION<br \/>\nTo serve both administrators in the field and instructors, \u00a0LERN will premiere a Certificate in Blended Instruction this fall that will also have the option for participants to become a Certified Blended Instructor (CBI). The program will have three courses:<br \/>\n1.Creating Hybrid Courses<br \/>\n2.Advanced Teaching Online<br \/>\n3.The Flipped Classroom<br \/>\nThe first course starts in September.\u00a0 For information, email <a href=\"mailto:info@lern.org\">info@lern.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blended, also called hybrid, learning is started to bud out this spring in the field of lifelong learning. The first programs to offer blended courses are being reported.\u00a0 For example, the first association is reporting a planned blended course to start by the end of this year. Ozzie Logozzo, a LERN member and association executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18807,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/18807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}