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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, many classrooms remain online in some capacity. Now is a particularly helpful time to consider implementing blended or hybrid learning, two strategies that allow for independent or remote learning. Blended Learning vs. Hybrid Learning. Sound similar? Sound similar?

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Lightspeed launches PD, webinars around collaborative learning

eSchool News

Inaugural PD, collaborative learning event to be held on December 4, 2015. Lightspeed Technologies , a provider of classroom audio solutions, is launching the Lightspeed Learning Academy, which will kick off with a one-day professional development event, and a new leadership webinar series.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

Edsurge

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. Gone is the “front of the room” that characterizes standard classrooms.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

The CoolCatTeacher

In the C&I department, Katie supervises a team of 15+ instructional design coaches that serve about 20 school districts, oversees a national coach mentorship program, and also created and oversees Edge•U Badges, an anytime anywhere professional learning program for educators. To learn about Lumio and how to sign up for FREE, head to LUM.IO

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Celebrating a School-Wide Commitment to Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Additionally, another post will focus on the different models of blended learning, ensuring a thorough exploration of this dynamic educational approach. What is Blended Learning? Blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom methods with digital and online media.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Many turn to standards-aligned digital resources for use in the classroom as an alternative to textbooks that are not directly aligned. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased.

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