Blended learning advantages

Blended Learning

An e-learning, which is combined with some of the advantages of face-to-face training and is also greatly enhanced by didactic methods, gamification, excellent (online) support and strong group dynamics, is a Blended learning. It brings you almost exclusively compared to conventional training Benefits, measurable results, in less time, with less budget - and your participants better learning success and more fun while learning! 😎

The rapid technical change in the age of digitization means that the need for learning increases. But especially the frequency in which adults have to learn is steadily increasing. This learning need needs to be met - but how?

Today's requirements give the impression that learning has to take up a much larger part of working time than it used to be. Well, if the didactic methods do not change, the expenditure of time increases and with it the pressure on the learners. The result: efficiency decreases while the learning workload increases. It becomes a zero-sum game.

The following erroneous assumption is also strongly represented: E-learning is suitable as preparation for face-to-face training in order to save time and be flexible. The Training efficiency is rarely questioned in this context! In retrospect, it often turns out that the cost / benefit ratio with this constellation did not turn out as hoped. Was the content too heavy to be trained in the form of an e-learning? Was there a lack of motivation?

In fact, the learning success can be seen less in the training content than in the didactics and the resulting Motivation of the participants. A person learns all the more more effectivethe more comfortable he feels. With high-quality didactic training, there does not have to be any lazy compromises between economic efficiency and user-friendliness, i.e. humanity. However, this is unfortunately still far too seldom the case these days.

If didactic means are not used - or only to a limited extent - this is usually only noticeable in face-to-face training because the productivity of the participants does not increase to the extent expected. And that is due to the bad and generally difficult measurable learning success! If important didactic means are also neglected when carrying out e-learning, the training is often terminated prematurely by the user. This results in a non-measurable, because nonexistent, learning success. In both cases, expectations are not met.

E-learning usually requires more Discipline than the presence variant. The key to success here lies in the Group dynamics, which promotes the stamina of the participants. A clear advantage of face-to-face training - which e-learning makes use of! Today most people meet in their workplace largely analogue and digital. There are also plenty of motivators to further promote a digital group feeling.

On the other hand, it is not enough just to enrich the existing training portfolio with dispassionate e-learning. Of course, you want to avoid the disadvantages of face-to-face training such as time and location dependency. But pure e-learning without it didactic means and Practical sophistication experience has shown that it has many disadvantages (e.g. acceptance problems, motivation problems), so that the overall training is often not improved at all. The overall result may even be worse!

Bizlearn therefore offers tried and tested Blended learning methodswith which the advantages of the aforementioned learning methods can be optimally and practically combined. Your participants learn Independent of time and placethat is training personalized and is based on the individual's level of knowledge. Redundancies are avoided. The positive group dynamics and self-motivation are strengthened. The participants are taken by the hand online at any time and optimally, so that a continuous support is guaranteed. All Learning successes are anonymized measurable and understandable. In the end we are talking about a high one Personal responsibility of the participants paired with optimal time and budget savings. It becomes a win-win situation.

Blended learning is that easy

Blended Learning

Specific features:

  • personalized
  • Skill-based
  • Personal responsibility
  • Challenge

... and combined features:

  • Asynchronicity & synchronicity
  • Networking & Relationship
  • Individuality
  • Time and place independence
  • diversity
  • Measurability
  • Motivation
  • Feedback
  • relevance
  • Discipline

Specific features:

  • Asynchronicity
  • Networking
  • Time and place independence
  • diversity
  • Measurability
  • Individuality

Face 2 face training

Specific features:

  • Synchronicity
  • Motivation
  • Feedback
  • Relationship
  • relevance
  • Discipline

Basically, blended learning can be interpreted differently and designed using different models. The following philosophy has proven itself for our customers:

With blended learning, the pure advantages of e-learning, such as measurability through digitization, are combined with the advantages of face-to-face teaching, such as humanity and dynamism, and enriched with didactic means such as gamification.

By using a digital learning platform in face-to-face training, the learning success of a participant can be measured better and anonymously. Forums and online communities, but also trainer support, add considerable value to e-learning. Face-to-face training is being digitized, so to speak, and digital e-learning is humanized.

Both forms of training are mixed instead of just coexisting. One or more learning platforms serve as the basis.

Depending on the training content, the time, the participant and the level of expansion, there are various disciplines, such as video training, software simulation, webinars, forums, communities, tests but also games, some of which are trained in or in addition to face-to-face training via a digital learning platform.

Advantages of the blended learning concept

Easier integration into daily work routine

Due to the possibility of learning partly asynchronously and in correspondingly smaller periods of time, the overall concept offers enough flexibility to be integrated into a complex everyday work. With the staff training discipline, digitization also offers the potential to act economically and nevertheless in an employee-friendly manner.

No redundancies

Rather, the advantages of blended learning lie in the fact that the participants only experience what they actually need and information that is absorbed in different ways is better anchored. The necessary anonymity for knowledge queries despite the social action also in the online context, as well as playful approaches, activate participant motivation significantly more than can be the case in some didactically inferior face-to-face training.

Learning, whether it happens formally, socially or through self-awareness, cannot be prevented, but it can always be optimized. Bizlearn provides precise content for this, paired with tailor-made blended learning concepts!

Scientific perspective

Learning is often reduced to formal learning. In the meantime, we learn continuously and always have the opportunity to optimize learning in situations outside of the classroom. Blended learning offers a number of possible solutions for this.

The entire learning complex is taken into account. Studies have shown that only 10% of our knowledge is acquired formally, i.e. through classical drumming. We learn 20% through the exchange with our fellow human beings and 70% through practical experience. This includes running, for example. A child generally has the necessary motivation to learn to walk. In comparison, an adult often needs external motivation or help with self-motivation in order to achieve certain goals.

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This motivation is successful through for example Gamification created. This is where the knowledge is made use of that people of all ages like play. E-learning can also be enriched through group dynamics, for example forums or the integration of social networks, but basically through the integration of smart phone apps, which also enable learning outside of the workplace. This will make the Potential of the learning complex continues to be used. When your participants combine these opportunities with actual work, the learning complex is completed. In expert circles as Training-on-the-job and with a real trainer at the side of the learner at work, the practical application can be analyzed and supported. Digital media now also open up numerous opportunities to support so-called informal learning. Bizlearn offers you individual concepts for this that meet your requirements and your employees. Just ask us! We look forward to your call on +49 (0) 9405 502 131 1 or your message to info@bizlearn.de.