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The pandemic COVID 19 has accelerated the uptake of blended learning approaches all over the world. The need to restrict human interaction to reduce the possibility of infection has led to a full lockdown of all educational institutions. Blended learning is a new teaching style combining traditional and modern learning models, where the digital methods of teaching students do not completely replace the ways in which the traditional teachers used to interact with and teach the students. However, there are several challenges associated with the understanding of blended learning models and their implementation in an educational institution. With the development of these blended learning models, there have also been several challenges associated with the different ways of accepting the learning models and using them in combination. The use of new technology encouraged exploration of the effectiveness and difference of collaborative learning in blended learning environments. This study investigated the social interactive network of students, level of knowledge building and perception level on usefulness in online and mobile collaborative learning environments in higher education. Blended collaborative learning and teaching approach is fast getting more popular in higher education, and its impacts on students' and teachers' involvements are yet to be fully explored. A very few research has been carried out to contextualize the learning and educating impacts of this instructing and learning approach. This paper gives a report of a qualitative study of the experiences of concurrently teaching online and face-to-face students in a university wide entrepreneurship development studies course. It expects to increase enhanced understandings of the effects on the students' learning and teacher's instructing in regarding three dimensions: instructional, social and learning, in the introduction of information and communication technology. This paper emphasizes on the capability of blended collaborative teaching and learning impacts for quality educational experiences.