What is blended learning?
Blended learning means that you will experience a mix of both face-to-face and online delivery, designed by your programme team to best support your learning.
Face-to-face sessions
These sessions will take place in person, and will often be in the form of:
- small group teaching
- practical sessions
- labs
- clinical skills
- performance
- fieldwork.
We have worked hard to mitigate risk in these sessions, and they will be carried out with social distancing, or with other measures in place such as Perspex screens, or in some cases with personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks.
Online delivery
These sessions will be delivered online, and will allow you to be more flexible with how you engage with your learning.
Some sessions will be delivered live or synchronously. This means that they will take place during a specific slot in your timetable, and you will ‘attend’ these sessions at the same time as your peers. These sessions allow you to work with others in groups, engage directly with your lecturers, and ask questions in real time.
You will also have access to asynchronous learning. This means that you can work at a time that suits you. This might include pre-recorded lectures, a forum where you can ask questions that are answered by your lecturers or other students, assignments and tasks that you complete on your own or in groups, and additional resources such as quizzes and resources to read and engage with.
Find out more about online learning
Digitally extended delivery
You may also have sessions that are delivered as a digitally extended session. This means that some of the group will attend face-to-face in the room with the lecturer, whilst others engage online at the same time.
We have invested in technology to support this hybrid form of delivery that will allow us to provide more face-to-face sessions, whilst ensuring that we maintain social distancing, and support our students who are not able to join us on campus.