The TED-Ed team provides an in depth look at the powerful features of the newly-launched TED-ED Beta website. You'll learn how TED-Ed videos are created, how they are arranged, about the learning materials that surround each video, and how you can create customized or "flipped" lessons based on any TED-Ed video or any video on YouTube.
Zaption turns online videos into engaging learning experiences. With just a few clicks, anyone can add images, text, discussion, and multiple question types to videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and private video libraries.
Blended [or hybrid] learning has been defined as instances where an individual course includes a blend of digital and face-to-face learning experiences. Bernard Bull expands upon this definition and describes 5 examples of self-blending in which individual students or groups of students take the initiative to add or supplement learning experiences in a course with digital and/or face-to-face learning activities.
Backchannels give students a voice. They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class period. Backchannels don't replace class discussions -- they extend them.
Knowmia is a destination for learning that features short video lessons from great teachers everywhere. Knowmia's Assessment Wizard allows teachers to create assessments for the lessons.
eduCanon is a free service for creating, assigning, and tracking your students' progress on flipped lessons. eduCanon allows teachers to build flipped lessons using YouTube and Vimeo videos, create questions about the videos, then assign lessons to their students. Teachers can track the progress of their students within eduCanon.
The following profiles provide a snapshot of these 20 next-generation
blended school models at their inception. Each includes an overview of the tools they plan to use and the populations they will serve.