Research


 * Blended Learning is a rapidly growing area of interest and research. This is a collection of articles and papers on the subject. Please feel free to add others.**

University of Technologies, Jamaica Prepared by Solvig Norman, Open School BC, April 16, 2012
 * Recommended Resources on Blended Learning (*and related topics) for Background Reading to Support the:**
 * Workshop for Strengthening the Capacity for Blended Online Teaching and Learning Strategies**,

Blended Teaching and Learning In this article, the author identifies the approaches and the benefits of blended instruction.
 * Liz Pape, President and CEO, Virtual High School Global Consortium**

Blended Learning Technology: Connecting With The Online-All-The-Time Student The annual 2011 Student Feedback Loop surveyed 2,835 post secondary students from 11 different institutions across the United States and Australia to gauge their views on blended learning and lecture capture technology. This paper offers valuable insights into students' preferences for delivery of instruction, learning styles and study resources. Prepared by Echo360 Inc.
 * What are students really saying about blended learning?**

[|Blended Learning in Practice:Case Studies from Leading Schools]#1 There’s a race going on between kids and computers at Summit Public Schools San Jose. Every day in 9th grade math, students learn algebra and geometry skills through Khan Academy – a free online repository of videos and exercises. When students finish one exercise in Khan, they move on to the next in the curriculum sequence. Teachers work with Khan’s developers to determine which standards will be covered in the coming months and create exercises to be used in the classrooms. Yet half a dozen students are finishing exercises faster than they can be written. During self-paced class time and outside of school, these students are zooming past the rest of their peers.
 * Summit Public Schools San Jose**

[|Blended Learning in Practice:Case Studies from Leading Schools]#2 The “Knowledge is Power Program” (KIPP) has grown since 1994 to become one of the largest, best known charter school networks in the United States. KIPP’s 125 schools serve over 33,000 students across the country, and are guided by the Five Pillars of high expectations, choice & commitment, more time, power to lead, and focus on results.
 * KIPP Empower Academy**

Evaluating What Works In Blended Learning Blended learning—the mix of virtual education and face-to-face instruction—is evolving quickly in schools across the country, generating a variety of different models. This special report, the second in an ongoing series on virtual education, examines several of those approaches and aims to identify what is working and where improvements are needed.
 * Education Week**

Blended Learning in Ontario The Ministry's goal is to make blended learning available for all Ontario students from kindergarten to grade 12 within three years of the September 2011 implementation start date. As school boards begin to offer blended learning to their students, e-Learning Ontario is supporting them with:
 * Ontario Ministry of Education **
 * Funding for a full-time e-Learning Contact (eLC) position in each school board for the 2012-13 school year. One of the duties of eLCs is to provide leadership and coordination of blended learning in their board. Since the needs and priorities of school boards may differ, the roll-out of blended learning may look different from board to board.
 * Various blended learning support documents for teachers and administrators have been created.
 * Numerous blended learning webinars that have been archived or can be joined live.

Blended Learning: A Disruptive Innovation (infographic) Blended learning is a disruptive innovation in education that can take many forms. Here, we look at what blended learning is, why its spreading, and how it works in real and virtual classrooms.
 * Knewton**

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning (pdf) 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 by serving as the backbone of a system that offers more personalized learning approaches for all students.
 * Innosight Institute**