Journal of Blended Online Learning

This case study investigates the effectiveness of the application of the blended approach to teaching a foreign language. The approach can be defined as a combination of a face-to-face classroom component with online instruction (Graham 2003). In the present study the element that was blended within the face-to-face component was asynchronous computer mediated communication in the form of e-mail exchanges between a native speaker of English and a Polish learner of English. The effectiveness of the approach was measured in terms of expanding vocabulary knowledge. The findings revealed that e-mail correspondence treated as an integral part of a language course helped the student to expand her vocabulary, eliminate the majority of spelling mistakes and influenced the complexity of her writing.

http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/v10n01-03_-_article.pdf

You are the safety director for a manufacturing organization that has a main campus and two remote locations. It is time to renew your employees’ training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and first aid. As you sit down to schedule the training, you deal with the realities of the traditional process: how to minimize the impact on production…how to accommodate shift employees… how to include remote location employees… how to control costs…how to handle the few employees who cannot make the training session… Maybe blended learning can help.

http://ohsonline.com/Articles/2010/02/01/Using-Blended-Learning-for-CPR-AED-and-First-Aid.aspx?Page=1

There are growing reasons to use both information and communication functions of learning technologies as part of clinical education, but the literature offers few accounts of such implementations or evaluations of their impact. This paper details the process of implementing a blend of online and face-to-face learning and teaching in a clinical education setting and it reports on the educational impact of this innovation.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/10/6