What if students were allowed to work at their own
pace in a blended learning environment?
Three years ago, she created a Web - based individual math and science curriculum «map» based on the Georgia Common Core Standards, enabling her students to move at their own
pace in a blended learning environment.
Not exact matches
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for ed
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that
blends adaptive online
learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled
in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for ed
in a
blended -
learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self -
paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
When students have control over time, place, path, and
pace, as they should
in blended -
learning environments, that second question is no longer the right one either but instead must turn to «What does mastery of a particular concept or standard look like?
But
in a
blended -
learning environment where each child is moving along
in an online curriculum likely at her own path and
pace, it's also irrelevant, as this good practice should be embedded naturally.
Other techniques that may fall into «less relevant» include such ones as «Stretch It,» which is designed to help «meet students where they are and push them
in a way that's directly responsive to what they've shown they can already do,» and becomes more embedded
in a
blended -
learning environment; «Wait Time,» which is designed to help all students have a moment to answer a question, but isn't relevant when each child is working at her own
pace online; «Do Now» to help focus students on a particular
learning activity when they enter the classroom; and several tips around varying
pacing for the entire classroom, which become more irrelevant when each student has a unique
pacing schedule.
Although it is hard to generalize across the landscape of
blended learning because of the rapid
pace of innovation
in the models, the differences between the models, and the continued changes
in technology, there are five common skills that teachers will likely need to be successful
in a
blended -
learning environment.
The rotation model of
blended learning allows students to move between the use of technology — which allows them to
learn new material at their own
pace — and face - to - face instruction with teachers
in a classroom
environment.
The delivery of these training sessions have been designed to incorporate a
blended learning approach, allowing grantees, project directors, and site coordinators the opportunity to
learn in face - to - face, online, and self -
paced environments.
In a blended learning environment, students learn through a combination of online instruction — with some element of student control over time, place, path and pace — and instruction in a classroo
In a
blended learning environment, students
learn through a combination of online instruction — with some element of student control over time, place, path and
pace — and instruction
in a classroo
in a classroom.