Blending e-learning technologies and practices in University Pedagogy: Between theory and praxis

Abstract

The principle and dominant model of integrating e-learning in traditional teaching in the Anglophone academic world is 'blended learning'. Blended learning also is used to describe learning that mixes various event-based activities, including face-to-face classrooms, live e-learning, and self-paced learning. Blended learning's role is to go beyond online course delivery and actually transform the educational experience. To that end, including educational technology that supports a full range of teaching and learning styles and optimises intellectual and technical resources along with traditional pedagogic forms in University teaching appears to become a necessity in a technological ever-changing world.