A Review of Blended Learning in Architectural Education Towards Attaining Quality Assurance
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Architectural education has a very unique method of pedagogy, case studies, teaching and learning methods with the design jury and formalized assessment frameworks in the era of ever-changing dynamics. Traditionally, blended learning means a combination of live, in-person classes with delayed “anytime, anywhere” online activities, as a blend of offline synchronous and online asynchronous activities. To assure the quality of academic architectural programs, it is necessary that Universities and Polytechnics maintain a critical attitude towards standardized policy in terms of Quality Assurance. The disquisition is based on educational arguments pointed out by literatures. Furthermore, the authors concluded by the qualitative analysis of various characters of Architecture, Classroom/Studio and Flexibility versus offline, online and blended learning systems in a selected University and Polytechnic in Bauchi State.
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