One of the criteria that a student has to consider when choosing the action plan that best meets their expectations is the chosen training methodology.
One of the keys to the success of this methodology is that it combines the best elements of online teaching with traditional face-to-face training. What are the advantages of blended training? Here are five benefits.
1. Personal conciliation plan
This measure can be especially effective in harmonizing professional commitments with academic objectives thanks to a training calendar organized in such a way that the student does not have to constantly travel to the classroom but can study flexibly at those times that best suit your schedule through the virtual platform.
2. Interpersonal contact
During the face-to-face sessions, you can strengthen the bonds of camaraderie with your classmates, you can get to know your teachers better and ask them questions to resolve any doubts.
Each new session is marked by the reunion emotion, but also, this practical and experiential learning is very conducive to sharing what has been learned in online training.
3. Break the routine
Learning is an experience that can also be accompanied by monotony. And one of the reasons some people dismiss the online training taught exclusively is because they fear being alone during the learning process.
In turn, other students discard the idea of face-to-face teaching due to the commitment that goes to the classroom at a certain time each day. Through blended training, the student practices the technological skills that are so important in the current work context, and also experience the feeling of closeness typical of face-to-face training. Therefore, one of the advantages of this experience is flexibility.
4 Motivation
In relation to the previous point, breaking the routine also brings a pleasant feeling of novelty in the academic calendar. The face-to-face classes break the routine of online training. And this improves the involvement of the student who, in addition, during the face-to-face training sessions receives constant advice from a personalized tutor.
5 Making new friends
The face-to-face classes offer you the opportunity to share experiences with your classmates. Some of them may reach be your friends since it is in those places where you spend more time where you can meet interesting people.
In other cases, these colleagues can become contacts with whom to share information of interest about the professional environment. Therefore, in the classroom context, you put your social skills into practice.
6 Budget
If you have to travel to another city to travel to the face-to-face sessions, this type of training reduces the budget of travel-related expense.
You also do not have to move to that new destination since this training option allows you to continue living in your current place of residence, traveling once a month to the destination where the classes are taught.
7. Access to a wide training offer
While when you are looking for face-to-face training you are more conditioned by the schedule of activities programmed by the centers that teach classes in your immediate environment, on the contrary, blended training allows you to expand your comfort zone with a wide proposal catalog. Thanks to this greater offer, you can establish a comparison of different alternatives to choose the one that best suits your professional objective.
What are, in your experience, the advantages of blended training? An effective action plan to boost your professional success by becoming your best version.
From experience for more than 20 years, as academic staff of the National Open and Distance University, I recognize that it is a valid and necessary alternative, to provide education to a student population that for various reasons, economic, labor or regional, cannot enter the conventional educational system.