Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started


I've just started MOOC Blended Learning Essentials because working as a foreign language teacher for 10 years I've been feeling the need to enhance and extend the learning environment and I think technology is the key to my problem. I'm integrating the digital learning tools into my lessons but I want to use them to their full potential.
Summarising the video here are the advantages of blended learning:

- It allows us to use resources from across the world in our own teaching.

- It makes lessons interactive.

- Modern learners are much more comfortable with learning tools than with textbooks so they can be more independent in their studies.

- Students can learn not only in the classroom, also they can follow the work afterwards in open learning spaces, on the bus on the way home, or at midnight from the VLE.

- Students can submit the works from wherever they are.

I found this link quite interesting and persuasive:
Five Reasons Why You Should Go Digital

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