Blended learning sits between fully online and fully in-person instruction. A typical university model uses in-person sessions for discussion, labs, and assessed presentations, while asynchronous online modules carry foundational theory, pre-reading, and practice quizzes. The LMS serves as the backbone: it delivers the online component, tracks both online and attendance-recorded in-person activity, and gives faculty a single gradebook spanning both modes.
Blended vs hybrid vs hyflex
- Blended — pre-defined split of online / in-person for all students.
- Hybrid — some students attend in-person, others join the same session remotely simultaneously.
- HyFlex — students choose session-by-session whether to attend in-person, synchronously remote, or asynchronously recorded.