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Welcome to BlendLearn, your source for all Blended Learning requirements.
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To see examples of our web design please look at Oak Furniture at http://www.oakalive.com and http://www.copperwasher.co.uk . For web promotion try typing "copper washers" into the search engine of your choice. Read our article on the "third way" in learning. Why will blending work? Why is elearning so bad, and is there really any alternative to the classroom? Sadly blended learning is often confused with elearning, nothing could be further from reality. Elearning has been struggling for acceptance for some years under the misapprehension that in some magical way it would replace other forms of learning, including the classroom, thereby saving us loads of money on courses, time away from work, travel, hotels etc. Clearly learning is a social activity and often an important reward for tolerating the tedium and pressure of every day jobs. Everyone involved with BlendLearn has been a classroom trainer at some time in their career so the dynamics of learning in that environment is well understood. Equally well we can see the shortcomings of elearning, even if it is done well with simulation and some interaction. The most common form of elearning is “page turning” courses with a quiz at the end. This just doesn’t work in the way most of us enjoy to learn. We have seen elearning wrestle with this problem by trying to introduce other activities like simulation, self discovery (I set you a problem and may tell you where to look but you must find the answer), on-line labs and virtual classrooms. At the same time that we see elearning expanding it’s portfolio of on-line activities we have seen classroom delivered courses using some of these techniques to enrich the training experience. For example to prepare students so that the come into the course at about the same level. It has always been a delicate balance for the trainer to accommodate all learners on the course. BlendLearn stands in the middle of the excesses of classroom training and elearning to produce an alternative way of delivering the learning experience. Consider how you would learn a new skill; you may read a book, take an evening class, discuss it with those already skilled in this area etc. You can see that we naturally take a blended approach to learning. With a classroom experience that is intense with expertise in the subject, other social activities that allow the informal learning structures to thrive and a wide variety of activities that allow all learners (whatever their learning preference) to engage fully with the material, the opportunity is there for us to provide life long learning experiences for everyone. Yes, everyone. At BlendLearn we are committed to providing very high value tools and services (not high cost) so that you can bring your expertise to everyone – it’s a decent size market. BlendLearn
has taken the disappointments of early e-learning and imposed a
rigorous, robust methodology to it's development techniques .
This has engineered ways for producing effective life long
learning opportunities. Face to face training will never be replaced
so BlendLearn adjusts the emphasis of delivery so that the
expert instructor is freed up to concentrate on the expert end of
their knowledge. The challenge for the instructor is to reposition
themselves as mentors and real experts rather than just deliverers
of material written by others. On a different note, if you're interested in high quality oak furniture then please take a look at www.oakalive.com This is a project that Blendlearn people have set up to give our life/work balance a new angle. Ó BlendLearn Limited 2008 |
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