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Learning Platform - itslearning. By Roger Stjernberg As a father of three, I lead a busy life.

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When I get home after work, my second job as a chef, housekeeper, chauffeur and social worker starts. I am also a homework tutor, a task that has become significantly easier since my daughter´s teachers flipped their classrooms. After work I make dinner, tidy the house, wash clothes, do the dishes and drive my children back and forth to football and handball practice. I might also have to explain to my son that he can’t take his brother’s football cards, play football in the living room, and that he has to think carefully about what he writes on Facebook. Between these activities, I also help my children with their homework. Homework leads to frustration and tears To be honest helping with homework is not exactly my favourite activity. And I was reluctant when my daughter came home and told me about a new way of doing homework. Video instruction icing on the cake. Learning Platform - itslearning.

Stine Gaaseide Røsås Liseth teaches Year 5 at Apeltun primary school in Bergen, Norway.

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She is also an edtech coordinator for Bergen municipality, a role that takes her to Bergen schools to train other teachers in using itslearning. I create small video clips that the students can watch at home. Either I make them right in itslearning with TechSmith (Jing) or I make the videos with an iPhone, upload them onto YouTube and then make them available on itslearning. I also give the students the option of choosing how they submit assignments. They can make videos, sound clips or write.

I also enjoy filming the students´ explanations and how they have solved assignments (in mathematics, for example). Why Blend? Learning Platform - itslearning. Distance learning is not only the domain of the arts and sciences.

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Physical education and fitness instructor Nicola shows that even her subject can be taught remotely. Nicola simply sets an assignment on the course page in the academy’s learning platform, and asks her students to complete it at home. Her students are assigned online study materials, which can include tests, podcasts, videos or theoretical papers. These introduce them to the theory, and they are then asked to demonstrate their knowledge by completing practical assignments. Completing practical exercises online Students in her Personal Training Certifications course may choose to study Nordic Walking - a type of fitness walking with specially designed poles - are asked to film themselves Nordic Walking and post the video on the course page. Nicola says this approach generates a lot of positive feedback from her students. Learning Platform - itslearning. At the Maria Primary School in the Netherlands, students decide what they study and create videos to show what they’ve learnt, leaving the teachers free to tailor the education to each child – and an award-winning approach that has heads turning.

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Ask a bunch of 11-year-old children what they know about Australia, and you’ll get a vast range of responses, from kangaroos to the Great Barrier Reef. This presents a geography teacher with a problem: what should you teach your students when they all have different starting points and interests? The Maria Primary School has come up with an unusual, innovative and award-winning solution called Learning by Design. Their approach gives teachers more opportunities to tailor the education to each child, and has produced extremely positive results, says Principal Gerard ann de Stegge.

So, what is the school doing to spread all these good feelings? Self-motivated and creative students An individual education for every student. Learning Platform - itslearning. Elisabeth Engum records herself explaining a maths concept for her students and posts the video on itslearning.

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She asks her students to watch the video at home in the evening, and in class the next day the students complete exercises related to the video. They work together or individually while Elisabeth moves between students helping them solve the equations. Flipping the traditional classroom This is the flipped classroom in action. In the traditional classroom, the teacher is restricted to teaching students from the front of the classroom on the whiteboard. The three elements of blended learning. A mix of online and face-to-face Blended learning is a mix of traditional face-to-face teaching and online learning.

The three elements of blended learning

The ratio doesn’t matter (you can do 95% of your teaching in the classroom and add one online activity and it’s still blended learning) as long as you have a mix of the two. The physical school and virtual world Blended learning should involve students learning in different locations, whether that’s at school, at home or somewhere in between. Learning Platform - itslearning.

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Teaching 21st skills. Learning Platform - itslearning. A hot topic in education, blended learning is gaining more and more attention from teachers.

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As schools adopt learning platforms, teachers want to know how to use them efficiently, and are turning to blended learning approaches for the answer. In this article, itslearning researcher Morten Fahlvik explains blended learning, its benefits and applications. In the end, he says, blended learning is a tool for every teacher. It’s 7 p.m. and eight-year-old Thomas is about to go to school – virtual school.

He presses play and his math teacher starts explaining arithmetic.