Blended Learning

Blended learning is a term increasingly used to describe the way e-learning is being combined with traditional classroom methods and independent study to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology. The Blended Learning has some models that can be used in teaching the students:

•          Face to face driver

Face to face teachers deliver most of the curriculum. The teacher also guides the students in e-learning in lab or in the class to supplement.

•          Rotation

The students have their schedule in online-learning by themselves and attending classroom for face to face learning with their teacher.

•          Flex

Most of the curriculum is online learning, but the teacher is provided a small group in the class for tutoring the students so they will not misunderstand the difficult material that they read by themselves.

•          Online Lab

The teacher brings the students to the computer lab to learn from the internet.

•          Self-Blended

The students themselves take the remote online-learning to supplement their traditional classroom learning.

•          Online Driver

Blended Learning has some advantages. First, it provides less expensive to deliver, affordable and saves time learning for learners. Then, flexibility make e-learning allows the student to access the materials from anywhere at anytime. Next, it helps the learners acquire knowledge of using the latest technologies and the Internet. Nevertheless, it also has some disadvantages. Initially, there is lack of reinforcement to encourage students to learn.  Therefore, the phenomena absence of a learning atmosphere in e-learning systems occurs.  Also, the learning process is less efficient than the face-to face learning.

So, Blended learning is a complete package for the students, because it combined two thing which is online learning and traditional classroom learning. By the online learning, the students can learn by themselves about the subject with unlimited sources. But then, the student will also get the feedback from the teacher about the subject they learn by themselves so that they will not misunderstand the lesson/subject, even, they will have better understanding about it.