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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work.

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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

Edsurge

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

Edsurge

Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities. In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

BLENDED LEARNING Any instruction that blends the use of computers with human teachers. PERSONALIZED LEARNING An instructional model in which each student studies at his or her own pace, often aided by technology. MASTERY-BASED LEARNING Another term for competency-based learning.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. Students do the bulk of their learning independently. They make their own way through online lessons, digital texts and multimedia, and follow links to extra, explanatory resources. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

They want them at school learning. In perhaps a reflection of where online learning is headed, both Bagley and Grover now run blended-learning schools that they say offer the best of both worlds — the personalization of an online school with the in-person interactions of a traditional school.).