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Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

How can we leverage technology to provide meaningful choices within a learning experience and create the time and space needed to work with individual students or small groups of learners? UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.”

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Blended Learning: What It Is and What It Is Not

Catlin Tucker

The pandemic has elevated the phrase “blended learning.” ” When schools closed or shifted to hybrid schedules, many institutions turned to blended learning to navigate the new demands placed on teachers and educational institutions. What Blended Learning Is. What Blended Learning is Not.

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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. The person doing the work in a classroom is the person doing the learning. That belief has informed the way I define blended learning.

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Revisiting Blended Learning Principles, With School Plans in Limbo

Edsurge

For the better part of a decade, many schools have been implementing blended learning models that integrate online learning with brick-and-mortar instruction to rethink time, space and staffing. Which learning activities are most important to do together?

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Designing For Deeper Learning: Identifying Challenges and Prototyping Solutions

Catlin Tucker

Through our online series, we explored the power of universally designed blended learning models to achieve deeper learning outcomes. Our discussions culminated in selecting specific challenges to explore in-depth, with the goal of prototyping solutions at the Learning Leaders Summit in Dubai.

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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Embracing the Student-Centered Classroom

Catlin Tucker

In my experience leading the shift to blended learning, the only way to truly engage students in learning is to allow them to actively lead the process, make decisions, and pursue learning through a lens of interest. This means that teachers must let go of control and allow students to take ownership of their learning.

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. First, I want to encourage every teacher using a blended learning model to clearly explain WHY they are using this model to students and their families.