A Paradigm Shift: Blended Learning in Teacher Education

A paradigm shift is a sudden and drastic changethat happens when the usual plan of action is replacedby a new, innovative, and different technique.Aparadigm shift that occurs when the fundamental orconventional methods lose their influence. Then thedominant Paradigms become secondary and therecessive Paradigms become powerful So, there is ashift from dominant to recessive Paradigm. In theteaching - learning process, the conventional methodof teaching or face-to -face mode of classesisdominant, and the online classes are recessive.Although there is the only option of online classes toimpact knowledge for the teacher in the absence ofphysical interaction. Thus, the digital paradigm shiftoccurs in the field of teacher education in the modeof blended learning; online versus offline. A Paradigmshift is according to Thomas Kuhn in his influentialbook. The Structure of Scientific Revolution (1962),“A change in the basic assumption, or paradigms,within the ruling theory of science”. The digitalParadigm shift enhances the interest, curiosity, skilland competence of pupil teachers as well as teachereducators.Diksha (Digital Infrastructure for