Blended learning, which combines face-to-face and online learning modalities, is a heterogeneous and steadily developing area of design and inquiry.
This entry presents the main debates in this developing area and discusses promising avenues for future inquiry.
She played a role in developing relevant areas of inquiry for the semi-structured interviews, as well as feedback on data interpretation from a local standpoint.
Graham (2003/1978) contended that the later Mohists developed a distinctive area of inquiry, which he labeled "disputation," that yields necessary, a priori knowledge of relations between names, and that this contrasts with "description," or the study of how names relate to objects.
According to the key work How People Learn, "to develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must: (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and (c) organize knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application" (National Research Council [NRC], 2000, p. 16).
The study of statistical models with error invariables is a well-developed area of statistical and psychometric inquiry.
Because this is a new area of inquiry, there are no validated questionnaires directly applicable to older adults' attitudes about cancer screening; therefore, we developed our own questions.
Based on the studies undertaken by Vygotsky [ 11] in 'meta-cognition' and 'self-regulated learning', the UoW medical students are encouraged to create their own area of inquiry, affording them the opportunity to be exposed to 'situated learning' [ 12] and thus allowing them to further develop a deep learning and understanding [ 13] about research and critical appraisal.
