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

Edsurge

Since engagement is something students have to provide, and teachers can not just apply engagement to any lesson, it is important to create a learning experience that is engaging, both in the digital and the physical classroom. There are many so-called blended programs that do not meet the definition, but schools use them anyway.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

But I definitely would be interested. We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. Go to class, hold off on rushing into any nontransparent purchasing decision, and rent an e-textbook by the day. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming. Young: Just on time, thank you.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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