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Teaching for blended learning––Research perspectives from on-campus and distance students

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The concept of blended learning has begun to change the nature of all teaching and learning in higher education. Information and communication technologies have impacted by providing a means of access to digital resources and interactive communication for all courses and the blending of pedagogy and technology has produced a range of approaches to teaching and learning. This paper discusses the research literature and the writers’ research, defining what they have concluded are teaching practices that use the concept of blended learning effectively. In investigating how ICT can add variation for student learning, they analyze this from two dominant modes of pedagogy, learning environment and pedagogy through both on-campus and distance education. In both modes, students acknowledged the power and effectiveness of blended learning.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia

    Elizabeth Stacey

  2. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Philippa Gerbic

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Stacey, E., Gerbic, P. Teaching for blended learning––Research perspectives from on-campus and distance students. Educ Inf Technol 12, 165–174 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-007-9037-5

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