Blended learning best practice to answers 21st century demands

Abstract

Identify and explore various 21st century skills that indicate the demands that must be mastered by a person. This still corresponds to the four pillars of life which include learning to do, learning to know, learning to be, and learning to live together. Education is a means to form these various skills, such as metacognition, critical thinking skills, problem solving, communication skills, and collaboration, information literacy, and various other skills. This research is a descriptive study with a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). This research focuses about designing learning activities that empower metacognition, contextual, and develop student-centered learning to achieve meaningful learning concepts that are expected to gain competent quality output. Various ways can be implemented in the learning process, one of which is by cultivating creativity and innovation in learning through blended learning. The results show that blended learning indicates high learning outcomes compared to online learning and face to face because blended learning is a model that combines the advantages of face-to-face learning models with e-learning models by developing various learning media. Blended learning as an alternative solution to overcome the weaknesses of online learning and face-to-face learning to produce a series of learning that is efficient, effective, and fun for students. The interaction and communication of blended learning between and between teacher-students can continue and this is the main attraction of learning in this 21st century era.