EVALUATING BLENDED LEARNING FOR TEACHING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS IN DESIGN STUDIO

Blended learning solutions are one way to offer additional support to students, facilitating the complex interactions between students and learning materials.  In a design studio setting, blended learning addresses the changing nature of studio-based learning by moving some student exercises and instructor coaching online, leaving the laboratory work for the studio space. The purpose of this research is to investigate online tools with a view to choosing the appropriate approaches for design studio teaching in a blended learning environment. This research outlines the users, their needs and makes recommendations to the adoption of particular tools for creating blended learning to fulfill those needs.