- INTRODUCTION
Distance education is
gaining ground over conventional teaching and learning settings and methods.
However, not all schools and learners have access to this luxury. It is still
out of reach for the majority of schools and learners around the world. Therefore
as a preparatory step, hybrid education is to be initialised in terms of
blending traditional and online teaching for students to get more than enough
of their needs. Generally, teachers plan their lesson for face-to-face casual
classroom setting, but they can also plan it for online pursuit. Learners will
be able to take the lesson and practice it at home via the web long before they
can discuss it in class.
Releasing the lesson from the
traditional classroom rigidity is one of the best options to help students
learn in their own pace, and learn to solve problems critically to eventually
become independent learners. They have time enough to study before coming to class
for discussion and deeper understanding of the course. This relationship
between being independent as a learner and hybrid learning is tight but not
evident.
This paper is not meant
to explain how a hybrid lesson works or can be planned in detail, nor is it
meant to show how to implement flipped classroom model. This paper just tries
to emphasize the importance of hybrid learning within the constant fast change
that is widening the gap between old teaching methods and modern learning
settings and tools. If we don’t conquer technology now and exploit it for the
efficiency of education, it will simply ruin the future of our (addicted to
mobile devices) kids.
- METHODOLOGIES
- HYBRID COURSES
- FLIPPED CLASSROOM
- CONCLUSION
