Blended Learning and Flipped Learning
Channel: Thiyagu Suriya
Date: 2020-07-10

Blended learning can increase access and flexibility for learners, increase level of active learning, and achieve better student experiences and outcomes. For teaching staff, blended learning can improve teaching and class management practices. A blend might include:
• face-to-face and online learning activities and formats 
• traditional timetabled classes with different modes, such as weekend, intensive, external,
• well established technologies such as lecture capture, and/or with social media and emerging technologies 
• simulations, group activities, site-based learning, practical

The Flipped Classroom is a blended learning model in which traditional ideas about classroom activities and homework are reversed, or "flipped." In this model, instructors have students interact with new material for homework first. They then use class time to discuss the new information and put those ideas into practice.
The flipped classroom can address the needs of struggling students by allowing teachers to personalize the students' education.
• Flipped Learning transfers the ownership of the learning to the students
• Flipped Learning personalizes learning for all students
• Flipped Learning gives teachers time to explore deeper learning opportunities and pedagogies with their students
• Flipped Learning makes learning (not teaching) the center of the classroom
• Flipped Learning maximizes the face to face time in the classroom 

This video explains the concept, elements, features, tools, merits and demerits of blended learning and flipped learning strategies.