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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

I can empathize with their frustration, but I attribute these behaviors to underdeveloped self-regulation skills, especially in online and blended learning environments. However, students are unlikely to develop these skills in learning environments where they are positioned as passive receivers of information.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom. It’s a message I’ve been arguing for a while.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

As Sal emphasized, his key finding during this exploratory process was that viewers could engage in the content when they were ready for, or needed, it and could learn at their own pace. He officially started Khan Academy in 2009 knowing that quality videos would withstand test of time. Khan Academy merely provides the content.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Luckily change came in the form of a little blue bird that gave me the kick in the butt that I desperately needed back in 2009. Moving from a fixed to a growth mindset and feeding of the daily inspiration that connected learning provides gave me with the fuel to create a shared vision that eventually became a reality as a result of action.

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Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Through this process, with subtle guidance from the instructor, students learn to teach themselves. As the teacher, you won’t be either the “sage on the stage” or “guide on the side” You are part of a learning group.You pose well-structured, open-ended questions and then expect students to lead the discussion.

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The end of FlipCon means big changes for flipped learning

eSchool News

The seminal conference for the flipped learning movement, known formally as the Annual Flipped Learning Conference, is entering its ninth and final year as an in-person event, owing — somewhat fittingly — to dramatic shifts in online learning and communication, similar to the ones that birthed the movement in the first place.

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Any colour you like: Learner autonomy and choice

Learning with 'e's

In the wider educational sense, autonomy has connotations of choice, including decisions about what one learns, where one learns it, and at what pace it is learnt. If the current trends continue, we can expect to see personalised learning finally realised, and any time, any place learning becoming a reality for millions.