Project: Development of a blended learning standard in Slovenia

Due to the rapid – especially technological – changes in society (Society 5.0), tertiary education highlights the need to develop innovative forms of teaching, including in lifelong education or lifelong learning. The digital transformation of education is therefore one of the strategic objectives of both the European Commission (EC) and Slovenia. 

Digital transformation of education can be achieved not only through technological transformation, but above all through new pedagogical paradigms and approaches to the preparation and implementation of the teaching process. At the same time, digitalisation of education must also be recognised as an opportunity to raise the quality of both the teaching process and the higher education system as a whole. Blended learning is one of the possible innovative approaches in higher education in modern society. 

The project will develop standards for blended learning and recommendations for the implementation of the standards with an emphasis on the provision of human, pedagogical, administrative, technical and material resources for the organisation of individual forms of blended learning. The substantive starting points and proposals will form the basis for the preparation of a proposal for a normative framework and its integration into the existing legislation. Innovative project management approaches will be used to open up the very challenge of positioning blended learning in the tertiary education system. Such an approach can support the planned structural and reform changes of the Ministry in the field of higher education, as outlined in the Recovery and Resilience Plan as well as the ECP 2022–2027.