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Innovative Times Call for Innovative Measures
The randomized control trial (RCT) is the best tool education researchers have for understanding cause and effect, but there are times - like in blended learning settings - when this research design is undesirable, infeasible, or both. As I have...
A Commons for Educator Learning
This blog was originally posted on Education Week. One of the most valuable yet scarcest resources we have in our school systems is teacher time. Inundated with countless demands – lesson planning, preparing materials, meeting with families, after...
What We Mean When We Say "Ecosystem Coordinator"
Sometimes it can be difficult to convey the value of ecosystem coordination. As I reflect on the origin and evolution of Open Up Resources, I realize that the success of Open Up provides a great example of how our work as an ecosystem coordinator at...
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...
Cisco ISD: Blended Learning in the Heart of Rural Texas
Nestled in north central Texas is Cisco Independent School District, a rural school system implementing high-quality blended learning. Those making their way across Texas on Interstate 20 are likely to compare the district to a scene from Friday...
Blended & Personalized Learning Conference to Take Place April 5-7, 2018
From Thursday, April 5, through Saturday, April 7, 2018, The Learning Accelerator will team up with the Highlander Institute and the Christensen Institute to showcase the best classroom, school, and district implementers of blended and personalized...
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...
Next Steps in Personalized Learning’s Equity Agenda: Clarifying Definitions, Goals and Measurement
In the last two and a half years that I have conducted research on the implementation of personalized learning, many principals and teachers have told me that equity is the core motivation for their instructional shift. Indeed, teachers frequently...
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...
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