DESIGNING AND ORGANIZING BLENDED LEARNING IN THE TEACHING THEME “LIVING THINGS” (NATURAL SCIENCE 7) TO DEVELOP STUDENTS' SELF-STUDY ABILITY

Abstract

Blended learning is a form of teaching that demonstrates the advantages of face-to-face teaching and online teaching, and is receiving attention in the educational trend combined with digital technology. This study introduces the theory of building a face-to-face class schedule alternating with an online class schedule according to level 2 of blended learning, thereby describe how to design and organize blended learning by the flipped classroom model. This is a suitable plan to implement blended learning in the teaching theme “Living things” of Natural Science subject grade 7 that assess the development of students' self-study ability. The results of the pedagogical experiment showed that the average score of self-study ability of 85 students in the experimental classes increased over three lessons. The results are verified by statistical parameters, showing the designing and using blended learning by the proposed plan is effectiveness and feasibility.