Blended Delivery in Vocational Training: A Case Study of Employer-Hosted Practical Blocks

Authors

  • Bastien Escande Department of Vocational Education, Minervois Centre for Digital Education, Lezignan, France Author
  • Gunnar-Olof Fernstrom Centre for Workplace Learning, Vastmanland Institute of Learning Technologies, Koping, Sweden Author
  • Dorothy Crowhurst Department of Learning Design, Fylde Centre for Digital Education, Blackpool, United Kingdom Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22694391

Keywords:

Blended Delivery in Vocational Training; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Blended Delivery in Vocational Training has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community can
now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for blended delivery in vocational training, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an
eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves.
Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket
avoidance.

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