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Chapter 44
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2584-4.ch044
ABSTRACT
This chapter examines blended learning and technological development in teaching and learning. This
study is based around the suggestion that technological development can emerge in Nigeria when an
enabling environment and other necessary facilities for blended learning are made available in diferent
institutions for teaching and learning. This chapter addresses the following topics: net generation and
use of technology outside of schools, the digital environment, computer use and blended learning in
schools, well-constructed digital environments, teaching and blended learning, the shift from teaching
to learning, student-centered methods, theories supporting the new view of the learning process, play
way method, group instructional methods, Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory, Skinner’s theory of learn-
ing, Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, problem-based learning, anchored instruction, distributed cognition,
cognition fexibility theory, cognitive apprenticeship, situated learning, self-regulated learning, and
entry behaviour/residual knowledge.
INTRODUCTION
Blended technology-aided learning, as distinct from learning about technology, has the capacity to
transform learning environments in ways that are still difficult for most educators to imagine (Ololube,
2011). Although children in today’s schools have only known the digital world, many adults continue to
experience great difficulty using basic computer functions such as email, search engines, and presenta-
tion software (Ololube, 2009). For the first time in human history, the young are thus more confident
with and fluent in the dominant technologies of the day, than the adults charged to teach them.
Blended Learning and
Technological Development
in Teaching and Learning
Kennedy E. Umunadi
Delta State University, Nigeria
Nwachukwu Prince Ololube
University of Education, Nigeria