The Blended Learning Teaching Guide
Your guide to blended learning at TRU
Welcome to the Blended Learning guide, a resource for TRU faculty who are teaching, or preparing to teach, courses that combine in-person and online learning. Whether you are designing a blended course for the first time or refining one you have taught before, this guide walks you through the full teaching cycle. Start with Get Ready to prepare before the semester begins, explore Choosing Your Modality to decide how your course activities fit across in-person and online spaces, visit Teaching and Learning for strategies to support students throughout the term, and finish with Looking Back to reflect on what worked and what you might adjust next time. Use the guide from start to finish or jump straight to the section that fits where you are right now.
What is Blended Learning?
At TRU, blended learning combines two modes of delivery within a single course: in-person classes where you and your students share a physical space, and online virtual classes where you meet at scheduled times through a web communication platform. Only one mode happens at a time, and together they reduce the hours students spend in a physical classroom. Every blended course is instructor-led with regularly scheduled class times in both settings. That structure is what sets blended learning apart from multi-access courses, where students choose how to attend, and from fully online courses, which may have no scheduled meetings at all.