A case study of blended learning implementation in higher institution: exploring practices and strategies

• Main Authors: Nordin, Hasniza, Md Yusuf, Zailani
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/24601/1/SICONSEM%202017%20159%20161.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/24601/

Purpose - This study was aimed to understand how do lecturers develop their blended learning practice and what strategies that could be employed in facilitating blended learning environment.Based on the current wave of teaching and learning with technology, blended learning is now seen as a requirement for teaching and learning in the 21st Century classroom.In recent years, many educational settings have adopted the blended learning approach (Halverson, et. al., 2014; Graham, Woodfield & Harrison, 2013) including Malaysian higher institutions (Shamuganathan & Karpudewan, 2015).It has become progressively important for lecturers to know how to effectively facilitate blended learning courses.Blended learning can be defined as courses that use portion of face-to-face context and integration of web components which allows the flexibility of the teaching and learning process (Dzuiban, Moskal & Hartman, 2005).Generally, most of academicians are aware of the urgency of blended learning implementation in higher institution in aligning with the shift 9 in Malaysian Education BluePrint (HE) (Ministry of Education, 2015).There are three (3) groups of blended learning category that have been identified from big data analysis, which are: group 30%, group 50% and group more than 70%. Several themes emerged which moulding around three main levels of contextual factors from the findings of in-depth interview with selected nine participants.