Blended Learning What is blended learning? Blended learning is not the same as technology-rich instruction. It goes beyond one-to-one computers and high-tech gadgets. Blended learning involves leveraging the Internet to afford each student a more personalized learning experience, including increased student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of learning. The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns: at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience. What are the most common models of blended learning? The majority of blended-learning programs resemble one of four models: Rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and Enriched Virtual. Blended Learning Universe Blended Learning MOOC May 2013
4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning by Jennifer Rita Nichols The term “21st century” has become an integral part of educational thinking and planning for the future. Educators and administrators are actively searching for ways to prepare students for the future, and the educational system has been evolving faster than ever before. Various studies have shown us that rote memorization is not an effective learning strategy, and that teacher-centered classrooms may not be the most efficiently structured ones for student engagement. However, despite learning about the skills that students will need to develop to become successful in the 21st century, as well as what beliefs about education may be worth hanging onto or throwing away, schools and teachers are left trying to figure out what their role needs to be in the education of their 21st century students. Nowadays, we don’t live in the same world. So then, what is the role of education in the 21st century? Society has changed. 1. 2. 3.
Georgia Virtual Learning Open Online Teacher Training » Create 1.1.1 – Time Management Quest The Time Management quest explores the interrelationship between planning, establishing a specific schedule, and the successful development and delivery of an online course. Introduction: Peter F. Take a moment to complete this Time Management quiz and reflect on time management practices. Completing this Quest successfully means: Reflecting and identifying five tools aligned with effective time management practices for the online learning environment. The Quest: Learning to manage one’s time through the employment of maps, schedules, calendars, and so forth will enable a more productive approach to assigned tasks within the online learning classroom. Resources for Exploration: Article published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. To complete this Quest successfully: List five time management tools in your blog and briefly describe their use and relevance to the online world. Reminder: Visitors to TOOL are encouraged to learn and earn. Still have questions?
What is Flipped Classroom?: Essentials of Blended Learning Course Design When a classroom is "flipped" the delivery of instruction happens outside of the actual class meetings. Instead of using classroom time for a lecture, the flipped classroom is used to reinforce, practice, and analyze the subject matter at hand through the use of a bank of interesting, challenging in-class assignments intended to assist in the assimilation phase of learning. Students do homework in class, where the teacher can watch over and guide them, and answer any questions. Class time can also be used for debate, demonstration, discussion, and review of specific concepts. ~ Jane Nickles from (Links to an external site.) What is the difference between blended learning and flipped classroom as learning environments? These terms overlap in meaning. Both hybrid learning and flipped classroom refer to the use of technology with face-to-face teaching. The flipped classroom approach offers clear advantages:
10 Reasons Every District Should Open a Flex School - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - AdvancePath, blended learning, Connections Education, K12 Flex is category of blended learning. Innosight Institute in their recently updated classifications of blended learning defined a flex model as “a program in which content and instruction are delivered primarily by the Internet, students move on an individually customized, fluid schedule among learning modalities, and the teacher-of-record is on-site.” While most instruction is online, “The teacher-of-record or other adults provide face-to-face support on a flexible and adaptive as-needed basis through activities such as small-group instruction, group projects, and individual tutoring.” In schools using rotation models, student spent 20 to 50 percent of their time online. In contrast, flex schools have a digital backbone–core instruction is conducted online with on-site academic support and guidance, integration and application opportunities, and extracurricular activities. There are 10 existing or potential benefits of flex models: For more see:
Why?: The Meaning Behind Trash | K-Pop Amino So, since I'm not a super k-pop fan like many of you I have decided to start a blog series called "Why". Each week or so I will post a new blog about questions I have regarding the k-pop Universe and I'll also share some of my criticisms over the topic of said week. For this week I want to know about the term "trash". So, why trash? Trash is a rather derogatory term and I don't really understand why people want to be called trash. Personally, I wouldn't want to label myself as that. So, why degrade yourself. Disclaimer: This post is for the most part satarical. Remembering Old Atlanta: Rich's Department Store Bakery cake recipes Trending Topics: Latest Entertainment News Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Sponsor Latest On AXS Share This: The AXS Cookie Policy This website, like most others, uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. Continue and Accept Welcome, please create an account. Save your billing info and buy tickets faster. Welcome back, please sign in. Sign up for our weekly event guide email. Be the first to know. Privacy Policy Create an AXS.com account E-mail address is required to create an account. By clicking Next, you agree to the AXS.com Terms and Conditions. Close Search Search Results You haven't searched for anything yet. Go on, get out there! Change Location Change your location Change your location by entering a City, Zip or Postal Code Music Sports Arts & Family
Blended Learning and the Flipped Classroom » Center for Instructional Technology & Training » University of Florida Overview What is Blended Learning? In their Blended Learning infographic, Knewton defines blended learning as any situation in which “…a student learns, at least in part, at a brick-and-mortar facility and through online delivery with student control over time, place, path, or pace.” With the advent of content management systems (CMS) like Sakai and Canvas, blended learning has become standard at many universities across disciplines. If you’d like to create a site for a course you are teaching at UF, you can request a development shell through e-Learning Support Services, or you can make a request for help with development by filling out the Course Assistance Request Form. The Flipped Classroom One implementation of blended learning is the use of the flipped classroom. In many flipped classrooms, video or audio lectures are delivered through an online CMS, and students are expected to watch the lectures before they meet in their face-to-face class. Additional Resources Supporting Research
The Flipped Learning Process Visually Explained April 2, 2015 After yesterday’s post on “Flipped Learning Resources” one of our readers emailed us this beautiful visual outlining the six main steps involved in the creation of a flipped classroom. These steps include: planning, recording, sharing, changing, grouping, and regrouping. Read the graphic for more details on each of these steps. As a refresher for those who are not yet familiar with the concept of a flipped classroom. via Daily Genius Courtesy of eLearning Infographics
The Everything Machine by Tinybop Parent Survival Guide to Fifty Shades of Grey – How to Talk to Your Child about Sadomasochism | Miriam Grossman, MD Mom, who’s Mr. Grey? Dad, what do those handcuffs mean? Parents, get ready for questions. Don’t underestimate the impact of the hard sell on your kids. It’s difficult to overstate the dangers. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I consider it my professional responsibility to help parents deal with this difficult issue, so I’ve been blogging about the harm posed by the film. But there’s a silver lining to this dark cloud that is Hollywood’s gift to us this Valentine’s Day. While the ideas promoted by Fifty Shades of Grey are vile, they present a precious opportunity: to explain truths your children must know, but won’t hear anywhere else. In this post, I provide guidance on how to speak to children – young adults, teens, and tweens if necessary – about the disturbed behaviors glamorized by what could become a blockbuster film. First, some assurance. Even if your teen shrugs off everything you say with a roll of her eyes, I promise you, she hears every word.
Blended Learning Helps Students at Different Cognitive Levels | Huffington Post What is the best way to meet today’s students “in the middle?” Kids today are more tech-savvy than ever before, and teachers are struggling to make sure that every student is educated according to their needs. From elementary to secondary school, students learn at different rates and have varying needs of social and educational interaction. How do we use cognitive data and blended learning to the students’ benefit? Blended learning is defined as a formal education program in which a student learns, at least in part, through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path or pace. There are six traditional models of blended learning offered as options for teachers to incorporate into their curricula, three of which address students’ differing cognitive and social-emotional abilities: There are a number of adaptive learning systems that can provide benefit to these last two models.
The Secret Is the Blend | Higher Ed Beta Recently, a Dean’s office asked me whether they should deliver blended classes in their college. Specifically, they wanted some evidence that showed that students enrolled in blended courses as they do online courses. Our online courses can sometimes fill up far faster than our face-to-face (f2f) courses. Through the years, I have had a couple chapters on blended learning, one of which I just wrote a little over a year ago, so I had some literature, but I wanted to know what was happening on other campuses as of late. This request led me to ask my tweeps (peeps or friends on Twitter) what research was out there and resulted in a working blog post that listed some of these resources. Let’s remember that blended learning is not new, but it has had a resurgence in the past couple years. I am a bit partial, I know. However, as recent as last month, I was asked to come talk to a university that was starting a blended program (Hi, friends at U of Tampa). Why the growth?
Difference Engine: The woes of Windows 10 DESPITE its having been available for 18 months, three out of four PC owners have not bothered to upgrade their computers to the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows 10. More than 700m of the world's 1.5bn or so computers continue to run on Windows 7, a piece of software three generations old. A further 300m users have stuck with other versions—half of them stubbornly (and rashly) clinging to 16-year-old Windows XP that Microsoft pensioned off three years ago. The business world has been even more recalcitrant. In a recent study by Softchoice, an info-tech consultancy, corporate computers were found to be running a whole gamut of legacy versions of Windows. That said, some 400m or so copies of Windows 10 are now thought to be in circulation. Can Windows 10 do the same? Things were dandy during the first 12 months following Windows 10's carefully orchestrated launch in July 2015, when upgrades were free for existing users of Windows 7 or 8.1.