The sudden epidemic triggered an unprecedented mass online teaching practice. Education seems to have more possibilities to integrate online and offline, blurring the boundaries of school, home and society, meaning that education can be wherever the students are. I strongly agree with this point in the reading: The strength of integrating face-to-face synchronous communication and text-based online asynchronous communication is powerfully complementary for higher educational purposes (Vaughan et al., 2013). The blended learning as I understand it is to combine the advantages of traditional learning methods with the advantages of networked learning, meaning that the leading role of teachers in guiding, inspiring and monitoring the teaching process should be exercised, meanwhile, the initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of students as the main part of the learning process should be fully reflected.

After these years of experience, many students should no longer be unfamiliar with the term “blended learning”. It is not a new word, but a way of learning derived from the integration of digital into the real world. I think blended learning is a system upgrade compared to face-to-face learning. But training managers can’t design a good training program or course if they don’t know how to operate blended learning. For example, in the early days of the epidemic, teachers and students worked together to learn how to operate online. While I know this example was forced, it really didn’t give the students a good learning effect.

In the article written by Morris and Stommel (2018): There are many who look at the Internet as the downfall of modern education. They decry online learning as necessarily sub-par, stating that the digital can never replace the face-to-face. Obviously, I don’t agree with this view. If Internet learning is the downfall, then what am I doing now? Why are so many people doing the same thing as me? The news says every year that technology is advancing, and isn’t Internet learning advancing? Internet learning is no substitute for face-to-face learning, just as online payments are no substitute for cash payments. No one can stop students who have a need for face-to-face learning, and certainly, Internet education did not emerge to replace face-to-face learning.