Blended learning: Gain for higher education

Blended learning is becoming more popular as a method of accommodating an increasingly varied student body while adding value to the learning environment through the use of online teaching resources. Blended learning, also known as hybrid learning, is a type of learning that mixes traditional classroom instruction with online instruction. Finding efficient and adaptable delivery methods has been aggressively supported in higher education to give all students easier access to high-quality learning opportunities than is achievable with just standard on-campus programmes. Today, blended learning is suggested as one option to fulfil both student learning and organisational needs in higher education. Blended learning is often characterised as the merging of traditional
face-to-face and online approaches to instruction. The benefits of both traditional and electronic learning methods are combined in a blended learning environment, including the benefits of face-to-face interaction. Face-to-face learning environments offer the social connection necessary for learning, whilst e-learning environments guarantee the flexibility and efficacy that cannot be obtained in a classroom setting. Due to the fact that emergency remote learning was the only method to ensure that students continued their education during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools all across the world abruptly switched to remote online learning. While the majority of the global north's nations were able to smoothly move into the online learning mode, this was not the case in the majority of the global south's nations, which had infrastructure problems. Due to its many benefits, blended learning has been a part of post-pandemic education for the majority of higher educational institutions since the pandemic's aftermath. The purpose of the research is to demonstrate and highlight the benefits of blended learning and the reasons that higher education curricula should fully support it.