BLENDED LEARNING AS AN OPTION FOR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION POST COVID-19

Abstract

This article deepens the knowledge about blended learning in university education. The objective of the research is to analyze blended learning in a descriptive and reflective way, considering that it constitutes a fundamental option for implementation at university education in post-covid-19. The analysis shows, firstly, that blended learning is currently understood and conceptualized as a mixed, combined or hybrid model, whose implementation presents many advantages, both for the university and for teachers and students; secondly, that the pandemic has encouraged the implementation of digitization plans and, thirdly, that for universities to implement this model they must face and assume challenges, among these, investing in technological infrastructure, achieving greater integration of ICT and propose didactic and pedagogical strategies. It is revealed that by implementing a blended learning model, the digital skills acquired by teachers and students during the pandemic would not be left aside and teacher-students contact would be maintained in face-to-face classrooms, thus becoming an alternative to meet the needs and the challenges facing university education.