A stronger learning environment has emerged with combining the strongest aspects of the two available
approaches to remove the deficiencies of traditional learning and Web-based learning. This new learning
approach is blended learning. In international literature it is also referred as hybrid learning and mixed learning
and it is used in very different ways by many researchers. Graham (2006) defines the blended learning as “the
combining of the two different education models, traditional face to face learning and distance learning”.
Blended learning can also be defined as integrating face to face learning and electronic learning or distance
learning, using difference learning theories, methodologies and techniques in the same place and supporting the
learning with various online technologies during the learning process in the classroom (Rossett, 2002; Discroll,
2002; Singh, 2003). Throne (2003), on the other hand, defines the blended learning as “an education model
which can integrate e-learning which has improved in parallel with new and technologic developments with
traditional learning which provides the interaction in classroom”. Wilson & Smilanich (2005) see the blended
learning as “the implementation of the most effective learning solutions in a coordinated way to achieve the
desired learning targets”. While Horton (2000) defines it as “combining some strong and advantageous aspects
of online learning and the learning in classroom” and Morgan (2002) explains that blended learning is conducted
to blend the best aspects of online learning and face to face learning.