Blended learning: overview and expectations
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.21.1.18842Keywords:
teaching-learning, innovation, ICT, interaction, blended learning, educational revolution.Abstract
At the start of the new century, teaching was transformed by the new communication technologies. Teaching-learning models, mediated through computers, have catalyzed new ways of teaching and learning beyond spatial and temporal coordinates. E-learning, blended learning and mobile learning offer a new universe of interactivity for teaching purposes. This work reviews the state of research studies and scientific literature on the new reality created by blended learning, analyzing its conceptualizations in the main scientific databases, with more than 7000 entries in Web of Sciences and almost 95000 in Google Scholar. The outcomes of this work show the strong momentum of good practices and the subsequent research in all the areas and levels of education, transversal competencies, teaching methods, educational materials and technologies. The main conclusion is that new ways of teaching and learning should be studied and understood regarding their connections with new learning media and contexts, starting from the incursion of the blended learning revolution.
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