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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

Reflections on the use of blended learning. Student perceptions of collaborative learning, social presence and satisfaction in a blended learning environment: Relationships and critical factors. The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning. Blended Learning, Classroom and E-Learning. and Brush, T.A.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2009): Collaborative learning : Teachers have opportunities to learn in a supportive community that organizes curriculum across grade levels and subjects. When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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Rigor, Grit, Collaboration: Teachers Share Why Buzzwords Don’t Always Inspire

Edsurge

According to Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), “research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning.” Not a word so much as a cliche, this quote can be traced to Richard Riley, Secretary of Education during the Clinton Administration.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. and Purdon, M.

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What's Happened in North Carolina With Statewide Support for Digital Learning

Edsurge

Where technology is working well is where we have principals with a vision for doing more and doing a different kind of learning that they can’t do without the tech.”. In 2006, North Carolina education leaders were intrigued by how virtual learning could help all its students. Look across our districts. Sharing Statewide .

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Work in progress

Learning with 'e's

Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor. 2006) Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms. References Engeström, Y. In Lave, J. and Chaiklin S. Richardson, W.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Our first-year programs examine fundamental human questions; promote collaborative learning; and develop reading, writing, speaking and research skills. From 2006-12 he was its first Associate Dean for Academic Advising Programs. This process begins in our first-year programs. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.