There’s been a lot of idle chit-chat about blended learning, and how ‘indispensable’ it is during the historic online pivot. Blended this and blended that – it’s spoken of as though it were some kind of magic bullet that will cure all pedagogical ills. It isn’t. But it could be.

No, scrub that. It isn’t. Blended is simply a crazy idea that learning can occur anywhere, in both formal and informal contexts, inside school and outside of it, using a mix of technology – as and when it suits. I wish I’d been clever enough to think of such a novel idea.

I often write about blended in all its many guises (I don’t get out much these days), and several posts that haven’t yet been taken down are still available including this one about boundaries and how to transgress them (yes, sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, and it probably is). I also wrote several in which I riffed drunkenly about how blended learning can literally change the world (see below for all this goodness). I have also written about Blended Society (or BS for short). But dip me in mayonnaise if this ain’t the cherry on the cake (yeah, mixing metaphors – that’s yet another kind of blend): A complete online course about the magnificent topic of how to blend. Don’t make me regret writing it. Honestly, you really should check it out – here’s the link. It’s free. It’s blended. You have nothing to lose, except about an hour of your life that you won’t ever get back.

And here are all the other posts in all their glorious fullness:
Blends, borders and boundaries
Trends and blends (includes links to a live webinar of me if you can take it)
In the mixer (keep it simple)
Mobile learning and blended interaction (in which I propose some pretentious new models and ideas)

Mixed up by that Steve Wheeler was probably written in Plymouth, England or somewhere, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, or so we are told.