Abstract:

Beyond any doubt, “learning” and “learning processes” are considered of basic issues in behavioral sciences, psychology, education and educational management. The process was born with human being and has evolved during human being development. The evolutionary procedure has continued its life in learning studies and researches. The current paper aims at investigating the evolutionary trend of learning theories employing descriptive method and studying hard and soft resources. In the present study, learning in real and virtual spaces has been analyzed. Although the emergence of new technologies, generally in education field and especially in learning field, has changed the quantity and quality of those fields, it has created concerns over learners’ national values, social development and affective development. Therefore, blended learning has introduced as the strategy for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) era and a model has been proposed. Employing educational social networks, electronic learning (e-learning) and networked management plus exploiting social interactions among learners and teachers, teachers and parents and other reciprocal interactions, blended learning can solve numerous concerns of parents and educational specialists while optimizing learning process.

Keywords:

Learning, Virtual Learning, Blended Learning, Social Network, Networked Learning.