Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Your Practice

Technology has fundamentally changed how we learn, making it more engaging but also challenging. This course shows you how to embed blended learning practices in the vocational education and training (VET) sector.

You will explore how new technology can assist learning from experience, how to overcome challenges in the sector, how to develop your own skills and discover the optimal uses of blended learning.

With over 90% satisfaction rate from previous learners, this course will support implementation of blended learning in your practice.

Use technology to improve learning outcomes

Digital tools can be used to improve various aspects of the learning process, starting with developing the learner’s voice. You can also use this opportunity to collect data from your learners to design and optimise your blended learning options.

Help your learners build skills independently

Independent learning is a key skill, and you can help your learners develop it with the help of blended learning technologies. You can support them in the initial stages and give them the opportunity to use online resources later on without always needing your help at each juncture.

Make blended learning affordable in your organisation

Blended learning needs to work with your organisation’s overall goals and budgets to be worthwhile. Discover more about the costs and benefits of blended learning, from the point of view of teacher time, and find out how blended learning can support your organisation’s overall ambitions.

This course is open to everyone, but is particularly aimed at those working in further education, skills training, vocational education, workplace learning, and lifelong learning or adult education. We provide a range of accreditation pathways, whether you are directly supporting learners or delivering training and seek to use blended learning more effectively.

• Learning from experience
• Welcome
• How does technology enhance the learning process?
• Collecting digital data to improve learning designs
• Contributing to a community of practice
• Summary
• What can technology do for our most challenging ambitions?
• The week ahead
• Reaching more learners, more flexibly
• Developing independent learners
• Reducing the costs of innovation
• Summary
• Planning for a challenging digital future
• The week ahead
• Matching your innovation to the needs of your organisation's ambitions
• Making blended learning affordable
• Managing a change to a blended learning culture
• Summary of the week and of the course