Blended Learning
Course Design Strategy

A blended course design strategy is also called resilient because it combines asynchronous online engagement (faculty-student, student-content, and student-student) and synchronous (face-to-face or via Zoom) engagement.

Whether your course will be taught face-to-face, online, or somewhere in between, designing a course using blended learning strategies makes it more flexible for you and your students.

Why? Blended learning combines traditional in-classroom and online learning, which has been shown to improve student performance. It gives your students the best of both strategies. Benefits of blended learning include:

• Online learning activities allow students to learn at their own pace and place.

• Class time can be used for collaborative learning activities and to make more meaningful connections across course content.

• The combination is allows for disruption (e.g., serious weather, natural disaster, illness, a pandemic).