How to Decide Which Technologies Will Boost Blended Learning in the College Classroom

He says educating instructors will make them feel less like their teaching methods are threatened, and more empowered to implement technology in their classrooms.

“When you build on their experience, they don’t feel that it’s coming from the top-down,” he says. “They also feel you respect what they do and that you are interested in what they find successful. Providing them with more resources and better training will work out better.”

Don’t assume students like it

Lim says many instructors mistakenly assume that students appreciate blended learning.

He says this especially happens when instructors record lectures incorrectly – this leads students to believe they are teaching themselves.

To prevent this, Lim says instructors should communicate with students to increase their understanding of the technology, and what to extract from the lesson.

“The students need to be educated on what blended learning is and how it can benefit them so they don’t have a misconception that the faculty aren’t do their work,” he says. “[Sometimes students think] they’re doing all the work, that they’re paying all this money and they had to teach themselves. If we’re not careful and if we don’t have the proper orientation in education, some students might feel blended learning is not in their interest.”