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What is Blended Learning?

ViewSonic Education

Although it has multiple definitions, all of them tend to agree on one point: blended learning can take multiple forms. Included in the well-established umbrella term of blended learning, educators can also implement hybrid learning, distance learning, flipped classrooms, and many other EdTech-assisted models.

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Re-Thinking the Learning Environment

A Principal's Reflections

While these are definitely important, a rapidly changing world requires the cultivation of disruptive thinkers who have the competence to replace conventional ideas with innovative solutions to authentic problems. The former was addressed in a previous post that looked at achieving equity through personalization.

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Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning

Neo LMS

This definitely takes a bit of getting used to, but once you experiment with that shift and you master it, you’ll find that it’s an incredibly enlightening experience. Students can log into the system at any time they want, even at 3 AM when you’re sleeping, and access each module in the order you set.

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

Edsurge

What made you first decide to try a “flipped classroom” approach to teaching? It’s just an unfortunate artifact of the kind of educational system they grow up with, that students go to class expecting the teacher to do work for them. You can listen to a complete version below, or on iTunes (or your favorite podcast app).

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Why I Use Edpuzzle: An Edpuzzle Review

The CoolCatTeacher

Edpuzzle solves so many of my flipped classroom problems. During the last four years of using flipped classroom techniques, I’ve come to rely on what is called the “in-flip” — I show the videos in class and interact with students to help them do in-class activities with what they’ve learned.

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How to pave the way for innovation in the classroom

Neo LMS

Of course, just having a brain does not lead directly to innovative ideas, but it’s definitely a starting point. Blended learning or the Flipped Classroom model did not spread because they were used by one teacher only. How much edtech will be in that classroom? Will the flipped classroom model continue to develop?

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.