BLENDED LEARNING IN PANDEMIC REALITY: COMBINING ONLINE AND FACE–TO-FACE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Online teaching will no longer simply be an option. Next year, institutions that are unable to offer a blended methodology that seamlessly integrates face-to-face and online teaching will increasingly find themselves left behind until they are simply out of the race. By next year, the emergency measures implemented by educational institutions over recent weeks will have to be fully integrated: solutions capable of providing efficient, complete and fulfilling learning experiences. A challenge for institutions, teachers and students, but one that could add a whole new dimension to teaching, adapting it to a new context, more flexible and, above all, more logical. In every way.

Statistics show that eLearning will become mainstream soon. In recent years, there has been an advancement in technology and increased internet connectivity. While the workforce has hugely adopted technology, the education sector needs recent studies have shown the importance of combining classroom teaching with technology.

One of the main objectives of blended learning model refers to teaching and learning conducted via a combination of face-to-face classroom learning and technology-based online learning approaches, which could be either synchronous or asynchronous or a combination of the two. Both of them aim to enhance and extend the learning opportunities for students beyond classroom learning. The authors of the article try to analyze and investigate the impact of blended learning as an educational approach on the academic performance of students in the context of COVID-19 pandemic and to present the list of open educational resources as effective integration of content and technology for improving the efficiency of teaching and learning courses. The article describes the experience of using a blended learning model with the help of/through information and communication technologies.

One of the effective tools of students’ self-study in a foreign language in higher technical school is an application of technologies Moodle. Availability of technologies extends on the educational process. In particular, information and communication technologies give a possibility to the students in the choice of individual training and research. The essential advantage of technologies is a possibility to individualize the process of training by drawing up of tasks and intellectual scope expansion in a speciality, and development of abilities in the field of foreign languages.

Keywords: blended learning; foreign language; information technologies; Moodle platform, pandemic