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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on blended learning. In our previous posts, we’ve explored what blended learning is and delved into its strengths and weaknesses. We’ve also examined various models of blended learning.

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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Cultivating Independent and Collaborative Meaning-Making

Catlin Tucker

Create An Analogy: Encourage students to make a comparison or create an analogy. An analogy, or comparison, challenges students to think about a thing’s qualities or characteristics to explain how it is similar to something else.

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Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software can Help Educators

Educational Technology Guy

Unfortunately, teaching both in-class and online isn’t as easy as it seems. To tackle this problem and organize blended learning effectively, educators should arm themselves with reliable technologies. Now, let’s explore why plagiarism detection software should become a part of every educator’s blended teaching toolkit.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Representation

Catlin Tucker

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. The field is now replete with alternative terms that attempt to describe what we do when we learn with technology.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

Tailoring learning to students’ exact needs takes significant resources, teacher training and, ideally, close collaboration with families — something many schools struggle to pull off. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. It maybe takes inclusion a step forward.”. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.