Some aspects of blended learning for Tallinn University of Technology and Tallinn Center of Industrial Education

This article describes new directions in the modernization of higher and vocational education courses of automation and mechatronics on the basis of the blended learning. The authors review methodological approaches for the blended technology design of training, their realization in the higher and vocational education. Training courses are being implemented in the regular automation and mechatronics programmes to university and vocational students. In the future we plan to adapt the work results in the industry. The structure and main components of the module for practical training in the laboratory are described. Such an approach to learning can be successfully used in the following courses: sensors and actuators in mechatronics and automation, application of PLC in industrial and building automation.