Author(s)

Juan Gao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Education Sciences, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Juan Gao

ABSTRACT

Blended learning has become the "New normal" of current education. However, since most teachers have not received special blended teaching training, they habitually continue to use the traditional teacher-centered concept when designing and implementing blended teaching, which has seriously hindered the development of blended teaching. The OBE concept of Outcome-Based Education is a learner-centered educational concept, which points out the direction for the development of blended teaching. This paper introduces the concept of OBE. Relying on the theory of Community of Inquiry and learning activity theory, this study designs blended learning activities based on OBE concept from four stages: the design of learners' expected outcomes, the preparation, the implementation and the evaluation of blended learning activities. It is expected to provide operable suggestions and valuable references for teachers committed to the research and practice of blended learning, so as to contribute to the digital transformation in education in China.

KEYWORDS

Outcome-based education, blended learning, blended teaching, learning activity design, community of inquiry model

CITE THIS PAPER

Juan Gao, Research on Blended Learning Activity Design Based on OBE. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2023) Vol. 7: 14-24. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2023.071103.

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