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What Early Blended Learning Pioneers Got Right That Today's Schools Have Forgotten

Edsurge

This situation reflects the limitation of a models-approach to blended learning implementation. While models have been pivotal in helping teachers implement blended practice, a hyper focus on their individual components, or one model over another, can obscure the big picture. In short, we need to go back to the basics.

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Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

Catlin Tucker

I had the pleasure of chatting with Benjamin Kalb and Rebecca Peters about blended learning and our conversation is available on the Vrain Waves Podcast.

Teaching 294
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5 of the biggest education trends in 2024

eSchool News

Vibrant and engaging learning spaces In a departure from traditional classroom design, schools are moving away from neutral color schemes in learning spaces. Plus, these spaces offer a place for teachers to decompress and recharge, providing a better working environment and improving teacher wellbeing.

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5 major education trends of 2024

eSchool News

Vibrant and engaging learning spaces In a departure from traditional classroom design, schools are moving away from neutral color schemes in learning spaces. Plus, these spaces offer a place for teachers to decompress and recharge, providing a better working environment and improving teacher wellbeing.

Education 290
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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

Edsurge

Building on the success and ubiquity of its online and blended-learning formats, the university is providing instructors with new technology, modular furniture, and incentives to explore and innovate teaching practices. “We

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

Edsurge

Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. grabbed the top contributor spots, speaking to brain-based classroom design, computational thinking, and school culture. You know, that old “desk-and-teacher-at-the-front” set-up.)

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New Research Proves Game-Based Learning Works—Here's Why That Matters

Edsurge

A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education.