Designing Blended Learning in Higher Education: The Neomillenial Learner and Mediated Immersion.
Blended learning as a term and a learning approach is still being refined, at times debated as a legitimate area of research, at times seen as the answer to the conundrum and challenges of the digital learner. Is it the Emperor's new clothes? As Morrison (2003) suggests, blended learning could be se...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 6; no. 10; pp. 53 - 61 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2009
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