Blended Learning

What is “Blended Learning”?

Blended Learning means learning through the use of a blend of educational resources. Different approaches to learning – e.g. face-to-face sessions, electronic teaching/learning concepts like computer-based training (CBT) or e-learning tools and techniques - are combined in a didactically sensible way to establish an organized and continually tutored further education arrangement.


Blended learning efficiently integrates basically different educational approaches in such a way that the advantages of the one are used to compensate the disadvantages of the others.

Blended learning facilitates independent learning by each individual learner.


By combining a multitude of different resources, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. In this way, a maximum learning success is obtained.
Blended learning controls the transfer of knowledge and intensifies both learning processes and communication, thus opening pathways towards a new learning culture.



Further Definitions of Blended Learning Given by Experts in the Field

“A mix of long-distance learning and face-to-face sessions.”
Cornelia Rizek-Pfister in a conference report published under the title „Digitaler Campus“ (2003), in an article called „Präsenzunterricht, Fernunterricht“

“Blended learning means ‘mixed’ learning and is a term used to describe the combination of online learning and face-to-face sessions within a training arrangement.”
Kornelia Maier-Häfele, Hartmut Häfele in „Open-Source-Werkzeuge für e-Trainings“ (2005), p. 313