Why blended learning?
We explore the benefits of mixing online content and classroom teaching
A few years before SwissThink’s expert team came together to offer our unique learning experience to credit markets, our President and Chief Learning Officer Blaise Ganguin had his own blended learning experience. This inspired him to ensure all our course participants had access to both inspiring and informative online content which could be revised and revisited in the classroom.
Blaise Ganguin comments
“I recall reading an Economist article on the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This inspired me to enrol on the Coursera platform for a course aptly named ‘Learning To Teach Online’, delivered by the University of New South Wales, Australia.”
“The experience was beyond expectations. There were 8,000 students from all over the world following this six week programme. The course was structured to perfection: each module included a 4-8 minute video, formal reading material, automated quizzes to cement the learning and fully fledged, peer reviewed assessments. I had to assess three myself as part of my final mark.”
“If the formal part was excellent, the most extraordinary place of learning was the course’s online forum. In thousands of threads, course participants (who were mostly education professionals) from Salvador, Russia, Ghana, the US and Germany were sharing their experiences on topics big and small in a very constructive and respectful way. It was an amazing way to learn which we aspire to replicate with our approach at SwissThink.”
