ABSTRACT
Education tends to be one of the most evolving fields which live through some legion radical modification to construct itself in order to meet the intimidating competitions around the world. Educationalists indulge themselves in the onerous task of diagnosing the waning shade of existing teaching methods and to retract its undesirable effects on students’ outcomes. This chapter presents the concept of blended learning, which is an ameliorative method amongst the emerging recent trends in learning and teaching. It aims to enlighten the learners with the conceptual features of blended learning and its paramount significance. It evinces the blended learning principles and its dynamic types that exist. This chapter gives you a complete picture of the tools of blended learning, as well as the necessary role of teachers and learners in this integrated method of traditional and online mode of teaching. As a method of keeping in pace with technological advancements, the chapter glimpses out the advantages and disadvantages of blended learning and its vast scope in the higher education system. Blended learning sets out the purpose of incorporating learner-oriented teaching techniques. It conglomerates the traditional classroom teaching with the trending e-learning format in an unerring sense of direction. Blended learning method does not provide any probabilities for missing out a single pinch of benefits out of either way of teaching methods and thus furnishes the learning outcome with much augmented experience, as it is engulfed with numerous activities in the process. Blended learning is used in a different ratio, depending on the degree to which the e-learning is employed along with the traditional method of learning. It is one of the flexible methods in teaching trends and time-saving too. The teacher acts as a facilitator in a blended learning approach by guiding students with essential reliable resources and activities. Blended learning is surely not a complete takeover of technology-based education; rather, it provides an alternate approach to traditional method of learning removing all the boredom associated with it. In the blended learning method, the technological aspect is used for projects, assessments, and for providing enriching learning experience with mind boggling audio-visual aids, which instigates the learning minds with curiosity. In this era of quenching the thirst for providing the state of the art, blended learning facilitates the essential desire of educating the minds with the best possible innovative concoction of e-learning and traditional way of teaching.
