Online Learning Update

July 18, 2011

10 Reasons Teachers Love Blended Learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by Tom Vander Ark, Huffington Post

Teachers have tough jobs — lots of kids and lots of responsibility — and budget cuts are making things worse. They have administrators telling them to boost achievement and personalize learning, but most of them are on their own without tools. But that is beginning to change as schools are beginning to blend traditional teaching with online learning. Blended learning is a shift to an online learning environment, for at least a portion of the student day, made to improve learning and operating productivity. In two important ways, this definition is different than layering computers on top of how we’ve always done things. First, this definition of blended learning means that technology is core to instructional delivery and it incorporates some student choice over time, location, and/or rate. Second, it requires differentiated (different levels) and distributed (different locations) staffing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-vander-ark/10-reasons-teachers-love-_b_894222.html

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