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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. (Innosight Institute later changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute.).

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Blended Learning is the combination of face to face and online instruction. As broadband service become increasingly common there is no reason for physical media such as DVD''s and CD''s. Sams and Bergman are in the process of writing a book on this method of instruction and are being invited to speak all around the country.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

“the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. Blended Learning Designs. Collaborative Learning. Growing Focus on Measuring Learning. Redesigning Learning Spaces. “Smart objects” (a.k.a. Three to Five Years. Five or More Years. Advancing Cultures of Innovation.