Can "Blended Learning" Be Redeemed?
Keith Trigwell,
e-learning,
Apr 07, 2005
After an extended discussion arguing that the term 'blended learning' is hollow, the authors argue that, rather than being abandoned, the term can be "redeemed" by interpreting it from the perspective of variation theory, "the idea that for learning to occur, variation must be experienced by the learner." Thus, "Blends of e-learning with other media may make it easier to help students experience the variation in the critical aspects of the topic being learnt." I am certainly in favour of diversity of experience. But it seems to me that blended learning is more about increasing the confort level of the experience for non-digital learners than it is about increasing diversity, and so this recasting has the air more of patina than redemption. PDF.
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