EPISODE 8: Blended learning as a platform to support student success - Azola Ralo

"Blended learning has enabled us to have a pulse on the students well-being, and their comprehension of and engagement with the learning material. Our Ukuthula android app offers students coping strategies and emotional well-being content and they can also find academic support content; it's really trying to move with them because they're all about apps". A coffee grab with Dr Paula Barnard-Ashton and Azola Ralo, academic advisor and blended learning practitioner in the Office of Student Success, that will warm you up in this chilly weather. Listen in as they discuss how blended learning has created a paradigm shift in health professions education, with lecturers taking into account the socioeconomic factors and how adjusting to university life impacts students' coping and resilience while striving to achieve their qualifications and using technology and apps to help them get there.