Blended Learning at GrayHarriman.com What is Blended LearningWhy use Blended Learning?How does one create Blended Learning?What medium can be used in Blended Learning?What are the challenges of Blended Learning?What are the advantages of Blended Learning?Blended Learning resources. What is Blended Learning? 1. 2. Why use Blended Learning? 1. 2. 3. 4. How does one design Blended Learning? To design blended training, the instructional designers start by analyzing the training or course objectives and braking them down into the smallest possible pedagogically (for children) or andragogically (for adults) appropriate chunks (learning object). After the course or training has been chunked, the best approach to deliver each segment of instruction (learning object) is identified. The course is then aggregated by grouping the instruction logically while taking into account the medium of delivery. What medium can be used in Blended Learning? The medium is not limited to technology and can include: Blended Learning Resources:
Reflecting On A Year Of Blended Learning Some of the city’s “turnaround” schools, including the one where I work, are listing knowledge or willingness to learn about using a blended learning instructional models as a criterion for hiring teachers. That’s because we are participating in the iLearn NYC program, a Department of Education initiative to support blended learning throughout the city. The initiative gives schools access to online content from various providers at a reduced cost; a learning management system to host online courses; and professional development, technical support, and training. The term “blended learning” caused a great deal of head-scratching among some staff members in my school as I’m sure it did in other turnaround schools. As the iLearn coordinator for my school, I offered answers to any questions teachers might have and there were many. Blended learning, simply defined as a combination of face to face and online instruction, is a pedagogical model that is often and easily misunderstood.
Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education There's this myth in the brick and mortar schools that somehow the onset of online K-12 learning will be the death of face-to-face (F2F) interaction. However this isn't so -- or at least in the interest of the future of rigor in education, it shouldn't be. In fact, without a heaping dose of F2F time plus real-time communication, online learning would become a desolate road for the educational system to travel. The fact is that there is a purpose in protecting a level of F2F and real-time interaction even in an online program. In education, the components of online and F2F are stronger together than apart. Face-to-Face + Synchronous Conversations + Asynchronous Interactions = Strong Online Learning Environment And if distance learning is to have the level of quality that we dream for it, we as educators need to proactively be a part of the Blended Learning that is inevitably coming our way. The Threat Ahead in Teacher Interaction $%#^$^&?!!! 5 Components Needed for a Blended Learning Model
Blended Learning | Donnell-Kay Foundation Expanding digital and online offerings can begin to alleviate significant inequities that exist within our public school system today. Some students have access to high quality teachers and a diverse array of courses and schools. Others lack access because they live in communities that struggle to attract talent or find the resources to provide the variety of options that a wealthier or larger district can offer. A shift to a blended model of learning – one that combines face to face, online and digital learning – is an important next move for our state. Click through for more on: Latest News & Reports The Colorado Summit on Blended Learning, Spring 2012 Denver Blended Learning Workshop, March 2013 What is Blended Learning? Policy Recommendations Latest News & Reports: "Blended Learning in Rural Colorado: Status & Strategies for Expansion," by Amy Murin and John Watson with the Evergreen Group for the Colorado Department of Education. Colorado Summit on Blended Learning Policy recommendations:
How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education I've just been reading this interesting publication from the Brookings institution titled How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education. At the beginning of the report there is a quote from Alan Daly, at the University of California at San Diego, who predicts that "Education innovation will shift away from experts and capacity building to focus on networks… We have to start thinking about the expertise that resides in the system, and we have to be connected in order to make use of it. This is a concept that is dear to my heart – the transformation of our current school system and its focus on the individual 'schoolhouse, into a networked schooling system, with its emphasis on the inherent strength of the network, on collaboration, sharing, synergy etc. Thus this monograph is less about the specific technologies and their particular uses in education, and more about their affordances as instruments of this transformation.
The Definition Of Blended Learning The Definition Of Blended Learning by TeachThought Staff Blended education. Hybrid learning. Flipping the classroom. Whatever one chooses to call it, this method of learning–which combines classroom and online education–is going places and making headlines along the way. That alone is one of the major benefits of blended learning. Defining hybrid or blended education is a trickier task than one might think–opinions vary wildly on the matter. That does not mean a professor can simply start a chat room or upload lecture videos and say he is leading a hybrid classroom. Blended Learning In Action In the course of higher education, blended or hybrid learning is a snazzy, yet relatively new tool, and not all professors use it the same way. For instance, most professors in blended classrooms use some version of a course management system application to connect with students online. How Hybrid Classrooms Are Redefining Education “Flipping” defies these conventions. Does Blended Learning Work?
7 Reasons Why Blended Learning Makes Sense SMARTER SCHOOLS | by Michael Spencer Education no longer comes in rows and textbooks, but from a combination of sources. Let’s start with a definition. What exactly is blended learning? Here’s a great, generally useful definition found on the City Prep Academies website that clarifies the term: “[Blended learning] integrates face-to-face classroom time with online learning (facilitated at all times by a classroom teacher), combining the effectiveness and socialization of the classroom with technology-enhanced online materials.” What makes blended learning especially appealing is that it provides students with courses that wouldn’t otherwise be available; teachers get near-instant student assessments and the opportunity to provide their students with individualized instruction. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If we’re excited and responsible in how we use technology for learning—then, like never before—the future of education is ours to create. Like this: Like Loading...
Evaluating What Works in Blended Learning Blended learning—the mix of virtual education and face-to-face instruction—is evolving quickly in schools across the country, generating a variety of different models. This special report, the second in an ongoing series on virtual education, examines several of those approaches and aims to identify what is working and where improvements are needed. Read Evaluating What Works in Blended Learning as a free digital edition—online or on your mobile device. But more research is needed to determine the effectiveness of the evolving models, and to identify which ones work best for which types of students. October 23, 2012 - Education Week Students in a Grand Rapids, Mich., innovation program blend virtual education and real-world experiences to prepare for college and careers. The latest evolution in Riverside, Calif., is a program for middle schoolers that requires them to attend school three hours a day, three days a week, and do the rest of their learning online at home.
Beyond blended learning: Reaching every student At the 2010 NCTIES conference in Raleigh, LEARN NC’s Bobby Hobgood delivered a presentation about blended learning. The archived session is available at the following link: Access to the archived session requires Microsoft Silverlight software. If you don’t already have Silverlight installed, clicking on the link will prompt your browser to ask you if you’d like to download the software. About this presentation Presentation title Beyond blended learning: Reaching every student Presenter Bobby Hobgood, LEARN NC — UNC School of Education Target audience Elementary, middle, high, K-12, administration Presentation goals Viewers of this hour-long presentation will learn Presentation abstract Dr. Dr.
'Blended learning' win win situation: Column By all rights, Wendy Chaves' Algebra II class should be a zoo. She's charged with teaching nearly 50 teenagers at a time at the Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High School in Los Angeles. Yet Chaves has never felt more effective. "I don't have to worry about classroom management," she reports. "The kids are engaged." Why? This "blended learning" model — combining in-person teaching and online learning — is being tried in a small but growing number of innovative schools nationwide, such as those in the Mooresville School District in North Carolina, Carpe Diem charter schools in Arizona and Indianapolis, and several district schools in Oakland. Rewards of teaching Many teachers would like to have that impact. Teaching remains a rewarding career, but there are challenges. In an era when technology personalizes everything, it's strange that public education still operates on the assembly line model. Shrinking class sizes is one path to this ideal, but it's not the only way.