"Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education"

Based on Blog posting by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, 4/28/11

This blog talks about the advantages of blended learning and I personally believe that this is a great idea.  The article talks about how face to face learning or at least real-time learning can help bring a face to your online learning experience. This article highlights the fact that online students may want to learn with different teaching methods.  For instance, some students may enjoy learning from a PowerPoint, while others may want to have a real-time conversation from their instructor.  I think a lot of the ideas presented in this blog make sense. For instance, keeping the class size limited for an online classes would help improve the quality of your student’s online learning experience.  Also, often different teaching methods to deliver the subject matter would be ideal as well.  I think the points presented are mostly common sense, but the article does make you think how you can make your online teaching experience better for all your students. I have experienced both blended learning and totally online learning classes.  I do agree that blending learning puts a face to who you a learning from.

Wolpert-Gawron, Heather (2011, April 28)  Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education (Web Log Message) Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/blended-online-learning-heather-wolpert-gawron