By David Nagel, THE Journal
Heather Staker: “The question … is whether blended learning becomes a disruptive innovation to today’s brick-and-mortar classrooms or a sustaining innovation for them.” Blended learning isn’t like other technology-driven movements in education. It isn’t about supporting current instructional models. In fact, just the opposite, according to researcher and education analyst Heather Staker: It’s about eliminating the “monolithic, factory-based architecture of today’s school system” altogether. Staker is the senior research fellow and project manager for the education practice at the Innosight Institute. In “The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of Emerging Models,” she and her team of researchers identified models for blended learning based on 40 existing programs and concluded that those models are “disruptive” in the way they bring innovation to schools. That is, they transform even as they improve teaching and learning.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/07/06/the-disruption-of-blended-learning.aspx
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