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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

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These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

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For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” And the ISTE Standards for Educators , from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE is the parent organization of EdSurge). Growing Demand For Online and Blended Teaching Thanks to the coronavirus, nearly all U.S.

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APLU Announces Adaptive-Courseware Grants: Bringing Scale to Scale

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Over three years, each institution will receive $515,000 “to adopt, implement and scale use of adaptive courseware in high-enrollment, blended learning courses in multiple departments and programs to improve student success,” according to Meaghan Duff, executive director of APLU’s Personalized Learning Consortium (PLC).

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Pearson officials have been talking about shifting away from being identified as simply a publishing company for years now.

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ClassIn Launches its World-Class Teaching and Learning Platform in the United States

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It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. While schools have worked to embrace technology for decades, innovation has been slow and fragmented, and most new technologies have been designed to solve a singular problem.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

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They decided to “personalizelearning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. What is personalized learning? That’s where technology comes in.

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How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning

Edsurge

Digital learning platforms are not, however, simply a matter of reproducing a print-first approach via high fidelity ebooks. Instead, new technologies allow publishers to reuse, remix and repurpose any content element into curated learning objects, which can be searchable and delivered as digital content “bundles”.