EQI Director Dr Martin Brown Presents at AERA 2023

EQI Director Dr Martin Brown attended AERA 2023 in Chicago and presented a paper based on the outcomes of the EU Erasmus + REBEL project entitled Exploring Blended Learning Across Four European Countries in the COVID-19 Era. The paper was based on research that examined teaching with the blended learning approach during the COVID-19 pandemic. A case research study was conducted in twenty schools in four European countries to answer the questions:

• What were practices for blended learning implemented in schools in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and Malta?
• What were the challenges of implementing blended learning across the four countries?
• What were the perceived benefits of blended learning?

The results showed that implementing blended learning in schools has many challenges at the macro level and not only at the micro-level of the classroom. For this reason it was suggested that future research should invest time and effort in developing design and evaluation frameworks for implementing blended learning in schools.