Blended Learning : Principles, Challenges & Impact on Student Performance

Patrisius Istiarto Djiwandono opens Chapter One by presenting three different studies done over the last two years concerning blended learning, going no to discuss the importance of face-to-face interaction and the benefits that stem from it.

Following this, Federica Oradini and Gunter Saunders overview the ways in which universities are changing their physical learning spaces to better acclimate for technology enhanced and blended learning activities in face-to-face courses in Chapter Two.

In Chapter Three, Calle Jimenez Tania and Lujan Mora Sergio present a study that exhibits the way the implementation of blended learning improved student learning.

Chapter Four by James C. Lockhart, PhD, Dorothy M. McKee, and Deborah Donnelly, PhD studies the outcome obtainable by using blended learning experiences in executive and post-experience management education.

Finally, in Chapter Five David Germany discusses several Blended Learning activities he has created to aid engineering students.