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THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY BLENDED LEARNING PILOT

Paul Holland, Karin Ennser, Sean Cahill, Melanie Hainke, Eve Moriarty, Rhian Kerton

ICERI Proceedings, Pages: 7527 - 7536

Swansea University Authors: Paul Holland, Karin Ennser, Sean Cahill, Melanie Hainke, Eve Moriarty, Rhian Kerton

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DOI (Published version): 10.21125/iceri.2019.1794

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The Higher Education (HE) sector in the United Kingdom has seen significant changes in recent years with higher student fees, removal of the cap on student numbers and the introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework to benchmark teaching quality across the country. Swansea University managemen...

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