Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Blended Learning Dead? - Huh?

I ran across a post by David Wilson - Is "Blended" really dead? He resides in the UK and during a recent discussion by folks who visited firms in the US, the general sense was:
"Blended Learning is still in the literature, but not discussed seriously"

Wow, really? If you are talking corporate learning, then almost everything is Blended Learning these days. The only thing I can surmise is either:

a. The definition of Blended Learning was a very limited definition of face-to-face instructor-led training with some courseware. Of course, even that is being done a lot.

or

b. It is so much part of everything that's being done that no one thinks about it as being anything worth discussing. In other words -
Of course we'll use a blended learning approach. Next question.
If you look at my Learning Design in a NutShell, the outcome of the learning design is a blend. Today, these blends are more and more interesting.

I can't imagine what they were saying.

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