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Befuddled by Blended Learning
By: Paul Curtis. Why we need to retire “blended learning” and set a more meaningful goal for educators like deeper, more personalized learning supported by digital and virtual learning experiences.
10 Ways to Personalize Learning
By: Adisack Nhouyvanisvong. Personalized learning is an educational approach where the student drives their own learning. Here are 10 tips to help educators personalize learning for students.
Standards Spotlight: Mastering Reading Standard 2
By: Ray Reutzel. Here are tips and strategies to help educators and school leaders create learning experiences for students to help them more successfully demonstrate mastery of common core reading standard 2.
Preparing Principals Like CEOs
Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program believes that preparing principals to run their schools like CEOs will enable them to solve problems, manage resources, and transform their schools.
Infographic | The Future of Lifelong Learning
By: Christina Yu. Lifelong learning organizations and initiatives, explores the trends today around educational aspiration, access, and affordability, and describes some of the societal benefits we can expect to see from lifelong learning in the future.
Former Lumberyard Transformed to Blended Learning School
At Intrinsic Charter School's new Chicago campus, spaces for blended learning didn’t have to get retrofitted into a traditional school. A former lumberyard, was a much better starting point for a permanent school designed specifically for blended learning.
So You Think You Want to Innovate?
The Learning Accelerator and 2Revolutions embark on a mission to define and create a culture of innovation and share their findings in a new framework.
Education Innovation Clusters: Help is on the way!
Deputy Director of the US Dept. of Ed's Office of EdTech describe the growing local education innovation clusters and networks can improving collaboration with the upcoming "Education Innovation Cluster Cookbook."
A Solution to Higher Retention and Graduation, and Lower Student Debt is Simpler Than You Think
How changing majors and not choosing the right major for your career impacts retention, graduation and student debt, and potential platform solutions to support in pathway selection.
How Designers Can Enable and Empower Our Schools
Good design shifts the way people think about the world around them. It has the power to inform and empower by providing a greater understanding of complex issues. Graphic designers have the unique ability to take information and transform it through data visualization.