Concordia International College Designs a Continuing Instructional Program for Blended Learning
Featured in this issue is a special report on Concordia Global’s another “new” beginnings: the development of two new programs and the emergence of one more education partner. One of the programs by Concordia International College is on the Diploma in Business and Development using the blended learning – a balanced combination of distance education and face to face delivery of instruction. Distance education is any form of organized teaching and learning where the student and the teacher are physically separate and technology is used to bridge the instructional gap (Westergaard, 2007). The blended curriculum becomes significant when Concordia International College invited Land Bank of the Philippines to an academic partnership towards the internationalization and professionalization of the Bank’s Managers Training Program . The instructional design of the Continuing Professional Education is a systematic process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities. Concordia received high evaluation from the participants on the delivery of blended curriculum proving that the CIC methods and technologies are appropriate to the learners instructional tasks and that there is a timely facilitator-to-learner feedback.
