Mokhtar Ben Henda

Mokhtar Ben Henda

Standards are adopted in a wide range of fields, both technical and industrial, as well as socio-economic, cultural and linguistic. They are presented explicitly as laws and regulations, technical and industrial standards or implicitly in the form of unwritten social standards. However, in a globalization marked by a very fine mosaic of socio-cultural identities, the question arises in relation to the construction of global, transparent and coherent systems in which considerable work of consensus is necessary to ensure all types of transfers and their local adaptations. The focus here is on the global education ecosystem which develops its own standards for the transfer of knowledge and socio-cultural values through learning, teaching and training. Subcommittee 36 of the International Organization for Standardization is one of the structures of this ecosystem in which the Francophonie participates to develop international standards for distance education on the basis of universal consensus.

Mokhtar Ben Henda

This guide is proposed as an operational instrument for CONFRASIE member universities (Regional Rectors' Conference of AUF member institutions in Pacific-Asia) in their projects to set up a blended learning system for bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees. It is structured in sections corresponding to a complete process of operationalizing a blended learning system, from the definition of an implementation strategy to the assessment of results. This guide covers also conceptual and theoretical fundamentals of distance learning as well as methodological and procedural tips and recommendations on how to implement blended learning in an existing face-to-face curriculum. It can serve for leaders of educational ICT-based projects as a guidance document to take pedagogical, technological and methodological decisions for the development, monitoring and assessment of a blended learning curricula. This guide can be augmented by other standards, tool and software manuals offering further training materials and guidelines on educational skills ans=d services.