Blended Learning in the IT Educational Programme: an Example of the Programming Technologies Course

This paper researches the blended learning technology usage for realization of the "Programming Technologies" course included in the IT programme under study in Ural Federal University. Today, blended learning has become not only prospective technology but the real necessity. The question now is not whether to blend or not; it is how to design an effective blend. In this paper, technologies, information platforms used for learning, and concepts underlying the course are under discussion. One of the concepts – cross-cutting technology usage – is discussed in detail. The results of the course accomplished by the final test are presented at the end of the paper. This course implementation in 2020 was a pilot one, and, according to the results, this experiment was recognized as a successful one in terms of the learning effect. Usage of different channels, technologies and teaching methods in combination has proved the effectiveness of blended learning, while the results obtained in each activity (in terms of marks) have balanced each other.