There are many elements critical to the success of change management initiatives, including those involving blended and personalized learning. Having worked with almost 200 districts across two organizations, we have learned that communications is one of the areas districts have the least experience with, but which can have the biggest impact. That’s why we’ve designed […]
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Having spent last week at SXSWedu 2017, I walked away from the conference exhausted, but also inspired by many of my interactions. Four years ago, SXSWedu was the first education technology conference I attended, and while I thought it was interesting, my main takeaway was “too much tech, not enough ed.” The conference has changed
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Includes Real-World Strategies for Schools Adopting Blended & Personalized Learning San Carlos, CA – March 15, 2017 – Education Elements and The Learning Accelerator today released a new communications planning guide for school districts that are transforming education through blended and personalized learning. The new guide is in response to the nation-wide movement towards personalization
The Learning Accelerator’s mission is to catalyze the implementation of high-quality blended learning. TLA has worked diligently to capture and share some of the best blended and personalized instructional practices from across the country. Our early work focused on the enablers to blending learning, things that districts need to have in place to make blended
TLA is giving away one free pass to this year’s conference in Austin from March 6-9. To enter to win, simply do the following: Go to the Christensen Institute’s newly launched BLU Blended and Personalized Learning Practice Forum. Post a question you’ve been struggling with or thinking about as you implement blended or personalized learning
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Celebrated superintendent Cary Matsuoka and instructional technology expert Al Motley join nonprofit board dedicated to blended and personalized learning Cupertino, CA – January 23, 2017 – The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a nonprofit catalyzing high-quality blended learning across the United States, today announced that Cary Matsuoka and Al Motley have joined the organization’s board of directors.
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In previous posts, I illustrated to edtech developers and educators how they can contribute to our shared understanding of if, when, and how blended learning is effective through TLA’s Measurement Agenda for Blended Learning. In this post, I focus on researchers, and how their role can be expanded out of the traditional boundaries of “evidence
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As we head into the holiday season and a New Year, we are reflecting on 2016 here at The Learning Accelerator. It has been an exciting year in blended and personalized learning, and we wanted to share our most popular blogs from the past year: All Together Now: Data, Personalization, and Mastery-Based Progression(by Beth Rabbitt)
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At this year’s iNACOL symposium, there was increasing consensus around the idea that understanding the effectiveness of blended and personalized learning in different contexts can no longer be put off into the future or left to researchers and think tanks alone. Several speakers agreed that we need these answers today and a broad group of
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Recently, the White House hosted a Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, at which 100 or so researchers came together to share with and learn from each other. The purpose of this meeting was twofold—first, to review progress made in supporting educational innovation by the outgoing administration, and second, to consider
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