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Catie Bull, senior marketing manager at Intrepid by VitalSource says, Blended learning works, and not just as a pandemic-era means of getting by.
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Most in-classroom training was, of course, put completely on hold last year due to safety restrictions posed by the global pandemic. Organizations and training firms that weren’t high on the digital maturity scale already had to do some hard and fast turns to meet the needs of their learners and clients remotely. But merely shifting eight hours of in-person training to eight hours of video conferencing quickly proved ineffective, and there simply was no single answer, no silver bullet when it came to learning technologies.
So, many organizations turned to a blended learning approach that has now become the new normal in our pandemic world. But what is it, exactly? How did we get here, how do you do it well and why is it so effective that experts think it’s poised to take over corporate learning for the long haul?
Following, let’s dive into blended learning — or “the digital blend,” “the blend” — whatever you prefer to call it. In fact, a digital learning leader at a national restaurant chain says, “I think that pretty soon we won’t call it ‘blended learning’; it’ll just become ‘learning.’...
In conclusion
Blended learning works, and not just as a pandemic-era means of getting by. It appeals to the new “in the flow of work” means of learning that has arisen due to the increase in remote or remote-hybrid workplaces, and there’s no going back to just classroom-based one- or two-day trainings. Classroom will likely replace some of the VILT components of the blend, but it will remain a blend of synchronous and asynchronous, online and virtual and live, face to face and self-directed, and so on. As the restaurant chain digital learning leader enthuses, “It’s an exciting 10 years coming. Buckle up!”
Source: Chief Learning Officer
