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What is the educator’s role in measuring blended learning success?
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...
A Measurement Agenda: Role of Edtech Developers?
As the implementation of blended and personalized learning grows, questions about effectiveness are becoming relevant to more students and families, teachers, and classrooms across the nation. Researchers and think tanks cannot generate these...
Call it what you want: Why we don’t need a common definition of ‘blended’ or ‘personalized’ learning to measure effectiveness
Last year’s enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act, when viewed alongside other recent federally supported education initiatives such as the expansion of the national E-Rate program, the ConnectED initiative, and the Go Open campaign, was...
SXSWedu Panel Picker: TLA’s picks
Interested in seeing blended learning on the agenda for this year’s SXSWedu? As part of their session selection process, SXSWedu welcomes public voting: anyone can cast their vote for session proposals, and public input accounts for 30% of the...
Personalized Learning: Trendy and True
Personalized learning practices are increasingly being used in a variety of K-12 settings. These include public, private, and charter schools; at elementary, middle, and high school levels; in many content areas—including core subjects like reading,...
Ask Not What Blended Learning Measurement Can Do For You…
Whenever a new study comes out that says blended learning is effective, or blended learning isn’t effective, the first thing I do is take a close read of the methods to see what the authors really mean by “blended learning” and “effectiveness.”...
Sharpening Our Focus on Blended Learning
Since our founding, The Learning Accelerator’s belief has been that blended learning is an innovation with the potential to transform the education of millions of students in American K-12 schools. By using technology to help teachers and students...
Blended Learning Is for Teachers, Too
On Tuesday, I touched upon some of the ways blended learning can be used to deepen student learning. Today, I'd love to tackle another group we tend not to emphasize in conversations about deeper learning: teachers. To kick this off, a note about...
Investing in Autonomy, Performance, and Innovation
Most districts put "innovation" at the top of their agendas these days, but too few are innovating with a purpose. The Reynoldsburg City School District (RCS) is becoming an exemplar for how to unleash principals' and teachers' creativity in...
What Role Should States Play in the Shift to Personalized Learning?
New tools and school models present a historic opportunity to better prepare young people for college, careers, and citizenship. It’s not unreasonable to think that we could double the percentage of well-prepared teens before the end of the decade....
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