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

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

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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

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Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning. Luckily, K-12 educators and administrators are sharing their practices from the ground in the Instruct newsletter to shed some light on these buzzwords.

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

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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. Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies.

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How to Make District-Wide Innovation Personal—and Collaborative

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Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. Parents and educators rightly fear the image of rows of students on computers, never talking to another human being.

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