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Teachers and Technology Must Not Be an Either/Or Dichotomy
This piece was originally posted on EdSurge. We must either: integrate technology or support teachers; teach traditionally or personalize learning; support districts or support charters; fund edtech or fund schools; individualize learning or...
Ensuring a Return on Instruction
A portion of the following is an excerpt from the new ASCD book, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today. For decades, school leaders have discussed “the need” to integrate technology. The problem with these conversations...
Publish or (the field will) perish: Blended learning needs more peer-reviewed publications
This blog was originally published on the Brookings Institution's Brown Center Chalkboard. Blended learning research is at a very interesting crossroads when it comes to interests of the public school system, nonprofit organizations, corporate...
Analysis: Teaching, Technology, Transformation — 5 Ways to Talk (and Think) About Personalized Learning
This piece originally appeared on The 74 Million. It seems that anytime a blog post, op-ed, or white paper about personalized learning is published, a mighty rift emerges in the field. On one side, skeptics condemn personalization with great zeal...
Putting it All Together: Decision-Makers and Blended Learning Measurement
Over the past year, I’ve written about how educators, researchers, ed tech developers, and funders are all important to enacting TLA’s Measurement Agenda for Blended Learning to connect the research and implementation cycles and help us all...
Philanthropy and Measurement are Inextricably Intertwined
At The Learning Accelerator, we recently refreshed our Blended and Personalized Learning at Work website in anticipation of attending this year’s iNACOL Symposium as a team. Both of these activities consumed all of our cognitive resources over the...
Introducing The Learning Accelerator's Blended Learning Measurement Fellows
The Learning Accelerator (TLA) believes that supporting effective blended learning innovation and implementation requires effective measurement to understand outcomes and inform collective improvement. As part of our work to catalyze this...
Different Schools Find Common Practices: Blended Learning in Urban Chicago and Suburban Colorado
One year ago, The Learning Accelerator launched our Blended & Personalized Learning Practices at Work platform to help capture and share what high-quality blended and instructional practices look like. The site featured six school models and a...
The Learning Accelerator's Blended Learning Measurement Fellowship
The Learning Accelerator is pleased to pilot a one-year Fellowship (fall 2017 - spring 2018) with a diverse cohort of individuals who will be conducting research that advances our measurement agenda for blended learning. Through these fellowships,...
What is unique about the researcher’s role in measuring blended learning success?
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...
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