Blended & Hybrid Approaches

Blended Learning

''Blended learning is a combination of in-person activities and digital tools and resources designed to deliver the best possible learning experience.

The use of learning tools can occur before, during or after an in-person session and support a variety of pedagogic purposes. The blended component, for example, might aim to extend the time students spend on a task, develop their information literacy skills, stimulate their interest before a class, or enable them to work at their own pace afterwards.

The term suggests careful and deliberate integration of online and in-person activities.'' - Blended learning in higher education (JISC)

Hybrid Teaching

''While hybrid learning is not as prevalent, it has begun to be used by some providers to describe programmes designed to provide students with a greater degree of choice as to how they engage with their learning. Where this is the case, programmes have been designed to be delivered both onsite and remotely, allowing students to move between the two methods of delivery seamlessly. Students are therefore given agency to construct their own ways of engaging with these hybrid programmes, defining how much they want to engage with the onsite or digital learning activities.'' - Building a Taxonomy for Digital Learning (QAA)

With many modes of learning in higher education lending aspects from each other, this infographic may be helpful for you to differentiate between the modes: