QA-Rubric-Blended-Learning

Blended learning has been mainstreamed in post-secondary education around the world. The increasing ubiquity of the Internet, along with greater affordability of data plans and personal devices (particularly cell phones), are enabling millions of individuals to participate in various forms of technology-enabled learning, or TEL. Blended learning relies on networked technologies for teaching and learning. It, therefore, must consider mechanisms of delivery ( e.g., the use of a learning management system, or LMS), instructional methods to best exploit such mechanisms (e.g., learner-centered pedagogies), and the proportion of engagement that occurs in person and by distance or online methods. In this instance, blended learning can be defined as the purposeful fusion of face-to-face and online environments to conduct teaching and learning (Garrison & Vaughan, 2008). There is no specific blueprint for implementing blended learning; how it is done will be dictated by mechanisms, pedagogies, facilities, capacities, and so on.