A Blended Collaboration Learning Model in Formal and Informal Learning Spaces and Its Application

Abstract

Educators and students are living in the digital age with much more initiative to decide where their learning activities take place. For resent years, more and more attention was put on blended learning which refers to combine at least two or more learning settings into a flexible learning environment. In this paper, blending formal and informal learning activities are focused on. The main aim of this study is to propose a blended collaboration learning model in formal and informal learning spaces and to show how this model can be adopted for better supporting activities occur in blending formal and informal learning spaces. The case study gathers examples from courses in Zhejiang University which applied this model and tries to give some more effective suggestions about promoting interaction in formal and informal learning spaces.