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As school districts look for ways to give their students a personalized learning experience without expanding their budgets, blended learning can be an effective option. This approach to schooling combines face-to-face instruction with online learning and has yielded strong results since officially being researched as an education strategy. In fact, according to a 2010 study from the U.S. Department of Education, blended learning classes produce statistically better results than their face-to-face, non-hybrid equivalents. This may be partly due to the fact that this rapidly growing model not only increases the flexibility and individualization of student learning experiences, but also allows teachers to expand the time they spend as facilitators of learning. Schools make the switch to blended learning for a variety of reasons. In addition to considering the age of the students, the reasons for choosing a blended model generally dictate which of the six models they choose to implement:

"Blended learning course design In designing a blended course, a simple way to start is to imagine a discrete unit of learning, for example, a particular topic or a chapter of the textbook. Here is a three-step process: Establish clear learning goals for the topic. Design activities to help students meet the learning goals. Sort the activities into two categories: online and face-to-face. None of these steps is particularly easy. Writing effective learning goals is a skill that teachers must constantly hone. Designing activities requires a creative mind that is pedagogically grounded. Addressing the third step could be the easiest of the required actions but requires much pedagogical savvy. In considering each step, the following questions might help: What do I really want students to learn? How can I ensure that students read the book prior to class? What lower-level activities can student complete online prior to class? What higher-level activities can be accomplished during class? What higher-level activities can students complete after a topic has been discussed face-to-face? Which activities require a grade and which activities will students do because they can immediately see the link to other graded activities?"

""For teachers, and schools, and classroom learning, there's an incredibly important role to play which is about giving kids access across the board to a baseline of standards, literacies, expectations, about what they need to participate in contemporary society…to be reflective, and to also take opportunity of the fact that you really have kids and adults in a shared space that's safe, that's sanctioned, that gives an opportunity to reflect in every day life….What we're saying by valuing informal learning is not that we should abandon formal learning, but that we should get those working together in a much more coordinated way." Mimi Ito, Associate Researcher, UC Irvine"

Active Learning strategies improves student learning & motivation Audience Response Feedback [Clickers are used in this video]: multiple choice questions, use results to focus discussion Online Mini Lectures: provides content that is developed further in F2F class

What is blended learning?

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning: Profiles of emerging models

White paper Is K-12 Blended Learning Disruptive? A theory of hybrid blended models

A model of learning objective based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy

resource wiki page on hybrid model

Group work in Distance Learning Courses

universal design for learning

Search result for "Hybrid Learning" Diigo community [some overlap with Blended]

Elements of Personalized Learning

A strong analysis on the definitions and implications of Blended Learning

designing self learning materials

Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students