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technology is the problem.

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no technology
Not alot of experince

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Technological and connection problems

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Yaprak Hazman, Turkey    Teachers should develop their own individual skills on ICT. That is the biggest barrier to implementing blended learning. I agree with the comments including not having a reliable internet connection or even a device. 

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Yaprak Hazman, Turkey    Teachers should develop their own individual skills on ICT. That is the biggest barrier to implementing blended learning. I agree with the comments including not having a reliable internet connection or even a device. 

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Reliable internet connection, student engagement and self discipline. Lack of equipment, Lack of teacher training.
Teachers should be prepared and educated on blended learning. Schools should have suitable equipment.

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in order to use blended learning, I think it takes several factors like:

- massive training for teachers

-training for students on the proper use of devices

- training also for families

- adequate infrastructure

Starting with these assumptions, I believe that blended learning could be created that takes into account the past but above all the present and the future.

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Lack of computers and poor internet.

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Fear of infection and misinformation coming from social media plays a big role in the challenges that will be created when looking into the implementation of blended learning. Technological aspects also play a big role, as some students have their own router, others are sharing smartphones with siblings... blended learning will not solve the problems we do face on the home-front, it can only help us to try and level the playing field for all in school.

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Some students dont have device and ınternert connection

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Maja Atanasovska Spaseska Skopje, Macedonia

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Maja Atanasovska Spaseska Skopje, Macedonia

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space in the classroom, internet connection, devices, tecnological skills (teachers and students), not everyone think that this way of learning is more efective sometimes. But everyone have no condition for all new aproach of learning, some colleuges still think other way and do not asept .

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Lack of stabe internet connection, teachers and students need to know how to work with the different tools

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The main difficulties are related to the lack tecnological skills from the teachers but form de students. The students use tecknologgy to enjoy them selfs, to paly, to talk with theirs pairs but they have a enourmous lack concerning the use of the same techonolgy to study, to investigate and to concentrate. They easly get lost in the daily work. The lack of equipment and internet connection are also barriers.
Well, to over due those barriers we need to re-think the wy of teaching. I think that is necessary to teach IT to all levels and also hve a team in each school just to help collegues with few tecnological skills. This is mandatory! Due to the lack of equipment, in Portugal, are being provide to students with economic difficulties and to teachers, laptops and wifi.

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Technological problems and lack of internet connections+gadgets

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I believe the issues with internet and gadgets

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Most of the kids, in primary schools, don't have devices and sometimes internet doesn´t work very well

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Special talented students are really given importance in Turkey and they are trying to provide them with all opportunities. Here, the responsibility belongs to the parent of the student and the student himself.

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Manin difficulties are inequality in access to necessary equipments a proper wifi connection

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The main difficulties are related to the lack of training of teachers in this area and the lack of equipment both at school and at students' homes. The necessary equipment is being provided to students and teachers during this year 2021.

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Social economical difficulties unable some students to have internet conection and equipment. This is being deald with by a government program as we speek.

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Quite a lot of students don' t have a computer

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Ithink that the most important problem is not the internet or the devices. My students have both of these, But some of them are demotivared in online classes.

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the lack of computer and the poor internet

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Some students don't have computers and they try to attend the courses from a mobile phone with a small screen, that causes them problems. And many of them have poor internet connection or no connection as well.

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The lack of computers and the poor internet

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Not all students have the perforating technique, as well as the internet connection.

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The process is a new one and importance should be given. both teachers and parents should take responsibility. I also think the government should ensure equal opportunities.

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Also in my school the most important barriers are the lack of a good wifi connection and the obsolescence of devices.

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I agree with most of the posts made by the collegues. I would place teachers' training first, because we cannot implement something that we are not aware of.

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As it has been mentioned poor internet connection and lack of devices for all students.

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poor internet connection

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I think one of the biggest barriers is that not all students have the right internet connection or the right smartphone, tablet or desktop device (most only have a cell phone, sometimes shared with their siblings).

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poor internet connection

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In my case, the most prominent barrier is the lack of parental support (not in terms of providing necessary technological devices, rather in terms of mental support, guidance and motivation). Having this in mind, the second barrier - that is the students' general lack of motivation - is almost self-explanatory.

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The lack of computers and the poor internet in the school and for most students at home. In addition to the lack of motivation for students to learn at a distance

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I think that one of the most common barrier is that many students haven’t   internet connection or suitable devices at home . Most of them have just a mobile phone.

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One of the most common barrier in my school is the inequality of means. Not all students has the same connectivity o devices. A solution can be the possibility of giving school devices to needy families.

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Now, the lack of resources (equipment and internet connection) and social distancing and as restrictions on COVID19 (number of students in the library, on existing computers, sharing of resources) cause a lot of constraints.

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I think that one of the greatest barriers is that not all students have internet connection or suitable devices at home (most of them have just a mobile phone, sometimes shared with their parents).

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One of the barriers is that not all teachers have developed their digital skills and some of them are not even willing to do so, although in my school there is sufficient technological equipment. Also, the curriculum material that  needs to be covered is too much and teachers do not have time and energy to experiment on blended learning approach. As a result, they prefer the beaten track of traditional methods

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- reliable internet connection
- student engagement and self discipline

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The biggest barriers are related to equipment and infrastructure. Many students do not have computers or a stable internet connection.
Then there is also a lack of digital literacy for some students and their parents.

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Our school is in a rural environment, and students use their parents' phones, and this thing is not available at any time

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-Lack of equipment
-Lack of parents' digital skills
-age of students (difficulties for pre-school children to learn online at home)
-lack of teacher training
The governments should prepere and educate teachers on blended learning, offer the suitable equipment at schools, and gie them motives to continue learning and love their jobs.

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- Lack of equipments and devices
- Lack of time to plan and prepare
- Lack of teacher training/experience
- Lack of students digital skills
- Young students have  huge difficulties to face the challenge of learning at home online.
- Lack of families digital skills (o help students if necessary)

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Educational establishments need to keep up with the digital shift. For this, it is important that they are equipped and are up-to-date centres of state-of-the-art technology.  It is also very important to provide teachers with training in digital technologies, without which they will not be able to keep up with their pupils. All this should be a priority when drawing up schools' digital plans.

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The main barriers are problems with internet connection, little training in digital technology and poor updating of equipment and programs

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To implement blended learning there are some problems that should be overcome. First teacher´s technological skills, many of them are not tech savvy and  although the previous year tried to update their tech skills, they still struggle. The other problem is related with students and their lack of interest when the class is online, sometimes because of laziness and others because of poor connection.
Teachers should be encouraged to update their tech skills and their teaching methods to adapt them  to these new times.
Students could be encouraged to attend online by the implementation of new teaching methods.

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Lack of time and willingness to change practices; very strict and little flexible curriculum.

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obstacles to blended learning in my opinion are the following:
1. the agreement on what can be done out of classrooms is equally valuable to traditional education practice. Older teachers and parents of all ages can disagree with the above and that's the main problem.
2. All things need time to be tested. I don't think that anything new or necessary because of covid-19 or 23 and so on should be praised so easily. Let's clear our minds and purposes and gather to discuss about the new horizons.
3. Students easily think that when you're outside classrooms there is no need to try to learn and cooperate.
4. Teachers are underestimated a lot during the last years. Blended learning sends  blended message to all. Everybody needs information and communities have to work on what the limits are.
5. Blended learning without supervising (hopefully self-supervising) seems dangerous to me. I have seen teachers breaking any type of rules or school schedule taking students outdoors without a certain method or planning. After behaviours like this students misunderstand things. We have to be honest and servers of common purposes. My destination is not to destroy what others create.
6. As far as online education is concerned I think it's a time of emergency till the pandemic  disappears. When you ask for online classes you should first offer to anyone involved what is needed. This didn't happen. Many teachers, maybe almost everyone did their best so far, Students maybe had a hard time. Maybe they enjoyed their home.  I am afraid that we didn't estimate the danger of praising the new era. Finally, talking about small islands in Greece maybe all these are a test of on line schools, where no teacher has to be placed officially there, so the goverment will not have the weight to pay some more.

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Obstacles to blended learning in my schools lack of Internet availability and poor techno-use skills for students and parents.

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1.Internet connection in remote schools
2.digital skills
3.equipment
4.COVID 19

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THE MAIN  BARRIER IS THE GENERATION GAP BETVEEN THE ADMINISTRATORSOF EDUCATION AND THE NEV GENERATION OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS WHO ARE REALLY READY FOR IT . THEY JUST WANT THE IGNITMENT, THE FREEDOM TO ACT AND THE DISCIPLINE OF  ASSESMENT
BY THEIR PEERS

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The main barrier that limit implementation in my school is managers' and teachers’ perspective on education. Because of working in private school, probably “parents' requests” for this can change their mind :)

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Poor internet connection
Stress caused by pandemi limitations and being online for a long time during the day

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using app and I do some videos' to explain how to use it

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Poor internet connection.
Lack of technical skills from my participants.
Lack of equipment or even a confortable space to study.

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The main barrier that I think we need to overcome is the fact that students have very little motivation for their own studies, yes there are students that take control of their education, but many of the students I teach feel that if they show up then they should pass. This motivation, or lack there of, is amplified online since the teacher has no way of controlling or encouraging students to do their work, meaning the ones that struggle in class really fall behind when online. Pushing the students to motivate themselves to do the work without a teacher beside them is one of the biggest barriers that I have faced with online learning.

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- lack of internet connection in remote schools
- lack of digital skills
- lack of equipment

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When I look at the comments of my fellow teachers, I can only agree with them. The same problems can be encountered in my school related to lack of equipments, bad internet connection, lack of digital skills and the lack of time for the teacher to prepare materials.
However, I think there is a bigger issue when it comes to the situation in Turkey. I think the most important thing that is lacking is intrinsic motivation in both teachers and students to develop themselves and become autonomous learners. In the new digital era, being able to motivate oneself is essential to survive and to be successful.
So while we need to work on the technical issues that might come with blended learning/teaching, we also need to focus on how we should motivate students.

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The main  barriers on implementing blended learning are technical problems in connecting and the variety of equipment the students are using (android or windows operating systems- that is Mobile phones or  PCs) For teachers there are not many actions to adopt or follow, in order to overcome the barriers, In real class, teachers must have well equipped classes

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Lack of digital skills
Poor internet connection
Lack of equipment

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During Covid-19 pandemic, students spend most of time online at home and they have too many lessons. Sometimes, they feel themselves exhausted and depressed. First of all, we need to do something to solve this problem. Next, we should get support from parents and school directors.

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The flipped separation strategy may encounter difficulties such as:
- Unavailability of the necessary hardware and software necessary for teachers to register and prepare the lesson.
- Some teachers' inability to use technology skillfully to develop teaching methods, motivation and communication with students.
- Some teachers have adhered to the traditional method and are unwilling to abandon it.
The lack of internet service for all students.
Students are lazy or busy when listening to the lesson outside of class

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My students,
they only have phones.
does not know how to read.
insufficient internet.

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Some students are not interested in learning;
- Bad internet connection
- lack of equipments
- Lack of time to plan and prepare

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There are also colleauges who are not only afraid of using new skills in their teaching methodology but are just not willing to learn how-to. And this is such a pity for the future of life-long learning.

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- not all students have the right equipment
- I'm not an expert myself to make use of a wide variety of online solutions
- there is need to construct our own materials - as the books are meant to be used in class -  and that requires awfully much time
- many students won't do the work unless someone is telling them to do so all the time

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The main barrier would be the lack of appropriate technology. Then I think there is a need for a lot of patience and energy to develop new skills and to start to become accustomed with blended learning. But this is the future, so keep going ....

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the first problem is the structural deficiencies, the digital divide and the training of both teachers and parents. it is necessary to engage on the part of all the actors of the training process.

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First, technical barriers. If you want to integrate both environments, you should be able to use interactive tools also within classroom. Second, teachers should be allowed more time for preparation both before the school year and during it, as this blended learning approach, especially in the beginning, will require more preparation. In our school, teachers get the final list of their classes a few days before the school starts, and then it is really difficult to create good quality plans adjusted for the specific class. And, finally, there will be a significant group of teachers that will resist the blended learning approach, and thus will make it more difficult to launch new ways of teaching.

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Main barriers:
- Lack of cooperation: not everyone is an eager learner to improve tech skills to support their lessons and students.
- Curriculums without flexibility
- Pressure instead of pleasure.

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Our primary school have a bad internet connection. Blended learning is very difficult.

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Lack of equipment since the computer lab is mainly used by our ICT teacher.

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problems:-
-lack of equipment
-lack of efficient cooperation between teachers to provide a better teaching status in school
-lack of the headmasters support

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Mostly the lack of equipment (Families and school) and, most importantly, the absense of support from "traditional thinking" teachers, believing that only CL should be considered as a method of teaching.

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Students can have difficulty learning on their own and not be able to immediately ask questions if they are unsure about the material (Kennedy and Newcombe, 2011).

Students need to understand what will happen in and out of the classroom when they select a “blended” course.

Students have typical barriers related to cost, time, location, available learning & teaching preference.

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Mostly lack of time to plan and prepare.

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They are several types
Hardware - Lack of IT tools to work, maybe will improve in the near future
Students - Lack of autonomy (in work, time management, IT skills)
Teachers - Lack of will to make a change, time for all, number of students
Schools - Curriculums without flexibility

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I’m lucky that my school is well equipped and has enough internet connection. Not all but some of my colleagues aren’t eager to learn new technological devices and to use digital tools in their teaching methods.

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The technical barriers are the first that come to mind. I'm in a rural area, so there are students and teachers who have difficulty in getting cell phone or internet service, although this has been improving. Lack of computers, webcams, also come to mind. Then the conditions at home are sometimes lacking: not only are many parents unable to help their children, having several people at home studying or working means it might be impossible to have a room all to yourself to work. As to the type of work itself, where students have to be more self-sufficient, organized and responsible, many still have to work on that.

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More issues are providing computers for each student inside the school and weak Internet and not available

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After reading my colleagues' comments on this wall, I fell to be lucky in stating that I've no problems in leading a blended teaching as my school is so strong on several levels.

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Barriers in the implementation of blended learning: lack of devices, internet connection, lack of IT training of teachers, economic ...

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I think most important problem is lack of technological devices and internet connection. We have faced this common problem during school closures. If we can solve this problem, I think it will be easier to implement blended learning.

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Lack of technological knowledge, lack of laws regarding blended and online learning, poor connection sometimes. Decision-makers should take the necessary steps when it comes to laws and regulations and the teachers could find a way to educate themselves and implement this knowledge into classroom.

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Apart from the known problems that have to do with the lack of digital tools, devices, internet connection, etc, the main problem is the lack of will of all the participants (teachers, parents, stakeholders) to make a change and decide towards an implementation of a blended learning approach.

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BL is limited by: 1) poor internet connection for teachers and children, 2) lack of equipment eg printers, PCs, scanners, 3) different software used by each child so they do not have access to all the educational material provided 4) the immpementation of BL started during pandemic period, so we did not have the opportunity to give close instructions and teach our students about the BL method and 5} the denial by teachers to change the traditional way of teaching

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Students digital skills, internet conection, school equipment. Students and teachers web tools knowledge.

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Students' technological equipment.
In my school are being distributed technological kits with laptop, portable router and internet card for needy students.

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Lack of motivation, poor digital skills.

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Lack of technical devices, lack of internet conection and knowledge in new web tools.

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Unfortunately, lack of equipment is the major problem. Also, need for student and teacher training.

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Blended learning is not yet an "official", by law, kind of learning in High School, where I work, so it could be done, but only as a means of helping students and with initiative of the teacher who has to find the time for this extra help to his/her students.

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In my opinion, what makes it most difficult to implement blended models in my institution is the divergent opinions that the various teachers have about the relevance of teaching blends. On the other hand, combined teaching activities increase teachers' working time. For combined teaching to work, it is necessary to carry out an extension of it within the classroom. A permanent connection is necessary.

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A limitation hard to overcome is that of "tradition", ie. these young learners have been accustomed to working with books, notebooks and worksheets required by their mainstream teachers.

The current distant learning situation could very well flip the "order of things done" but one person seems not enough to bring about this change.

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Rula, Jordan
the most implementing blended learning in my school are the weak internet and the lack of students experience dealing with technology, and the lock down schools because of corona pandemic.

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The obstacles to implementing blended learning in my school are the lack of a strong internet, the lack of experience of parents with this type of education, and the closure of schools due to the Corona pandemic.

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-economic barriers
-devices
-Internet connection
-equipment from school which is not modern
-teachers who lack IT training