Blended learning would become an integral component of education system, says QF expert

A senior education expert at the Qatar Foundation (QF) has said that eventually blended learning would become an integral component of the education system and added that it was a ‘necessary’ decision taken by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) regarding continuing blended learning for the 2021/2022 academic year. 

Executive Director for Learning and Innovation for Pre-University Education at QF, Mehdi Benchaabane said, “I think the MoEHE’s decision was necessary given the volatility of the number of COVID-19 cases while residents return from their summer break and the recent spread of the delta variant.” “At QF we welcome this decision as it also allowed our schools to continue with a similar operational plan as the one in place last year. Moving on, I look forward to a flexible and responsive approach to policy around the return of students to schools. I expect that most schools will want to go back to ‘normal’, but the reality is that blended learning should be more than a contingency plan if we want to sustain learning in a world of uncertainty,” he told The Peninsula.