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Sean Dagony-Clark

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning (Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker) - 0 views

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    "Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K-12 students did. What was originally a distance learning phenomenon no longer is. Most of the growth is occurring in blended-learning environments, in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this happens, online learning has the potential to transform America's education system..."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Blended learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

  • Blended learning in educational research refers to a mixing of different learning environments. It combines traditional face-to-face classroom methods with more modern computer-mediated activities.
  • Whether a course should be proposed as a face-to-face interaction, an online course or a blended course depends on the analysis of the competencies at stake, the nature and location of the audience, and the resources available.
  • The facilitator’s role can be broken down into the following four categories: 1. developing online course content and structure 2. communication 3. guiding and individualizing learning 4. assessing, grading, and promoting
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  • Teachers need to be educated in both traditional classroom methods, but also enhanced training to develop skills targeted to online education.
  • The elements of teacher preparation for online learning fall into two categories. First, they need to be trained to use the available tools and technology. Secondly, they need to be trained in online pedagogy; particularly, how to communicate content without the use of contextual cues.
  • Fischer, Michael. [mf032.k12.sd.us/Porftolio/files/FischerMichaelPositionPaper.pdf "The Use of Online Learning Methods in the Traditional Classroom"]. mf032.k12.sd.us/Porftolio/files/FischerMichaelPositionPaper.pdf. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
  • Horn, Michael B., and Heather C. Staker. The Rise of K12 Blended Learning. Chapel Hill, NC: Innosight Institute, Jan. 2011. PDF.
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    Good background information on blended learning. Pay particular attention to the footnotes.
Sean Dagony-Clark

ALEKS -- Assessment and Learning - 0 views

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    Online learning system used by High Tech High. Seems similar to Carnegie Learning. "Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple-choice questions. A student who shows a high level of mastery of an ALEKS course will be successful in the actual course she is taking."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning - US Dept of Ed - 0 views

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    "The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning  conditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.... Analysts noted that these blended conditions often included additional learning time and instructional elements not received by students in control conditions. This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Carnegie Learning - Math curricula - Software Demos - 0 views

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    The 800-lb gorilla of online math learning. Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor is an adaptive, differentiated learning system in which student understanding is assessed and individually addressed as part of the learning process. It's truly an amazing system, but it's not modular -- in other words, you won't get the best use of it pulling out items for use in your curriculum, because the system's curriculum is intended to be used in full. But it might be worth considering -- results show huge results from this system. See http://www.carnegielearning.com/research/reports/
Sean Dagony-Clark

E-Learning for Educators | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

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    "Resources and Annotations from UW-Stout's E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program. Contributors are mainly from the E-Learning for Educators Course & the E-Learning Practicum Course."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Learning.com Marketplace - 0 views

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    "Browse and use standards-aligned curriculum." Some free, some paid.
Sean Dagony-Clark

Blended Learning Models - 2002 - ASTD - 1 views

  • skill-driven mixes interaction with a facilitator through email, discussion forums, and face-to-face meetings with self-paced learning, such as Web-based courses and books.
  • Behavior-driven model
  • Skill-driven model
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  • blends traditional classroom-based learning with online collaborative learning events
  • Developers should use this approach to teach content that requires learners to try out new behaviors in a risk-free environment
  • Competency-driven model
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    Information on approaches to blended learning. Summary of the three NIIT models: Skill-Driven, Attitude-Driven, Competency-Driven.
Sean Dagony-Clark

Blended Learning - Educause - 0 views

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    "Seven years of research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has found that blended courses--those that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning and reduced classroom contact hours--have the potential to increase student learning while lowering attrition rates compared to equivalent, fully online courses. This research bulletin reports the results of a disciplined UCF program that has led to a fundamental redesign of the instructional model."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Individual teaching: the six models of blended learning - 0 views

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    6 models of blended learning, from Michael Horn: "Face-to-Face driver, Rotation, Flex, Online lab, Self-blend, Online driver."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Salman Khan Describes Future Classrooms with Blended Learning - Edutopia - 2 views

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    A great explanation of the power of blended learning, whether or not you think Khan's Academy is the pinnacle of the practice. "Educational technology pioneer Salman Khan maps how online learning tools can help physical classrooms evolve to become hubs for creativity and hands-on experiences, and how Khan Academy and the Discovery Lab summer camp fit into that big picture."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Personal Learning Networks for Educators - YouTube - 0 views

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    Skip Via explains personal learning networks, or PLNs. Slightly out of date at this point (e.g. Google Wave is gone) but a great explanation of how differentiated learning can happen online.
Sean Dagony-Clark

Do students need to learn lower-level factual and procedural knowledge before they can ... - 0 views

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    "There is a prevailing conception that students must learn facts and procedural knowledge BEFORE they can then engage in so-called 'higher-order' thinking skills. Educators, parents, policymakers, online commentators, and others point to Bloom's taxonomy (which typically has been portrayed as a pyramid) and say, "See? You have to do this stuff down here before you can do that stuff up top!" But that's not how Bloom and his co-authors categorized the taxonomy..."
Sean Dagony-Clark

Online Universities: The Future of Elite Education - 0 views

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    "Online education has officially arrived. What five years ago was the ubiquitous domain of University of Phoenix, is now dominated by sexy start-ups like the recently announced edX by Harvard and MIT. The unprecedented boom of these education technology outfits has thrown the media into a tizzy about the coming of an education revolution. It certainly will happen, but there are some fundamental challenges it must tackle before it can disrupt and transform elite higher education."
Sean Dagony-Clark

iEARN Projects | Collaboration Centre - 1 views

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    "iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide."
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    Thanks for pointing out this one, John! I'd forgotten about it.
Sean Dagony-Clark

What My 11 Year Old's Stanford Course Taught Me About Online Education - Forbes - 0 views

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    "My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice ring to it but it is actually meaningless because these days anyone can take a course at Stanford. You don't even have to pay. All you need is access to a computer and a reasonable Internet connection. So what we can say is my 11 year old son just watched a bunch of videos on the Internet. That doesn't make for an interesting post except that this 'bunch of videos' is currently being heralded as the future of higher education." Joshua Gans, Forbes, 5/7/12
Ben Lesch

Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Another advance in the flipped classroom construct. What I found most interesting was the use of the students as peer assessors when they were given papers to write instead of quizzes. not sure how effective it would be, but it might be very effective to have 1000 or so thoughtful critiques of a paper you've written. You would see a trend of the responses, and it might weed out subjectivity. That kind of "crowdsourcing" is something unique that technology could provide. There is a module in moodle which was not ready for primetime in version 1.9, but in Moodle 2.0 it might be. It was called Workshop, and allowed teachers and students to do peer editing and grading in an organized way. If it works better in 2.0, we should consider using it for peer editing exercises... ben
Sean Dagony-Clark

Authentic Education - 1 views

  • July 11-13: UbD Users' Conference Hear and discuss strategies for local UbD advancement from Dr. Grant Wiggins as well as a number of experienced UbD educators, administrators, and consultants. Register Online
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    Grant Wiggins' website on all aspects of UbD, great and small. 
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