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In short, "blended learning" is where students sign up for NRA courses and do NRA led online classwork before they come to the certified instructors to finish, "Basic Pistol" and so on.

And so, welcome to the future of NRA Training. I'll give it a chance, but everything I read in researching the subject paints a rather dreary picture. This was apparently a top-down decision with little to no enthusiasm for it by NRA trainers, or at least the ones who are talking about it online.

The new outline, previously mentioned, is pretty good and should be very familiar from the old Basic Pistol instructors book. The new one is a five hour course if my math is right. Apparently, the online portion students will have completed before coming to you covers 3 hrs of the old 8 hour course.

It would make a lot of sense to the let instructors take the student online course so they know the content and what they're supposed to have learned. I don't imagine it will be much different presentationally from the online NRA RSO course. I took that simply to get that check mark...but have arranged to audit a real RSO class when one becomes available to me.

One issue I have with what they're doing is that they've eliminated the 3 hr FIRST Steps Pistol Orientation--you can't even buy that student packet any longer, the SKU has been eliminated from the storefront. Apparently, they intend to do that with Rifle and Shotgun as well.

I'm going to generate my own Pistol 101 class that will very closely follow what the old FIRST Steps class was because that's a pretty popular one for me.

I'm very curious to hear input from other instructors who offer NRA classes as this 'update' moves forward.