Talk:Blended learning

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This article was nominated for deletion on 30 December 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] blah speak

let's face it, any good teacher will use a range of techniques to get an idea across to learners. So for blended learning, read good practice. this is supposed to describe education, and it includes "sentences" such as, "Further to this blended learning can be facilitated through the use of 'blended' virtual and physical resources."

huh?

and the opener: "Blended learning can be defined as the combination of multiple approaches to pedagogy or teaching." really? then that's what it is — no "can be defined as" weaseling. ugh. pedagogy or teaching? yeah.

"The concept of blended learning has particular relevance to language learning (see point 8 below)." point 8, huh?

"Blended Learning is learning that is facilitated by the effective combination of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning, and founded on transparent communication amongst all parties involved with a course." wow. i feel so smart now. thank god that "blended learning" includes "transparent communication"! ROFLMAO

this article, if not the concept as well, is riddled with garbage speak. suggested reading: "Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account." great stuff, huh? try speaking plainly. works wonders. of course, then this article wouldn't exist, since the title alone is mush-mouth malarkey. any supposed educator spouting this crap should be out on the street not writing encyclopedia articles. Wbfl 04:19, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't hold back, Wbfl. Tell us how you really feel.—GraemeMcRae^talk 05:32, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blended Learning Blah Blah lah

If it encourages people to try new ways of engaging learners, instead of churning out the usual, who cares what it's called an whether some people are a bit melifluous about it.