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Getting Started: What Is Blended Learning?

In This Chapter

• A definition of blended learning

• Ideas for assessing your situation

• A look at the changing perceptions around learning

• Who should lead the change to blended learning

Many practitioners have thought of blended learning as three-dimensional in the way it incorporates instructional treatments, leverages educational technologies, and occurs in different places. And yet the modern blend is more than what, how, and where people are learning. It’s also about when people are learning. The fact is, modern learners are learning all the time—modern blended learning is actually four-dimensional.

Supported by job aids, worksheets, and curated resources, we will explore what works for modern ...

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