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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

Blended Learning vs. Hybrid Learning. As mentioned earlier, blended learning and hybrid learning are often used as interchangeable terms. There are, however, a few distinctions between the educational strategies that are important to note. Computers & Education, August 2008, 51(1), pp. and Brush, T.A.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Professional Learning Communities. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). Job Embedded Professional Development.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). and Purdon, M.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Lawrence Seaway remade our region, a liberal arts education is transformational to a student’s intellect. First-year programs are in wide use in American colleges and universities because they can can lead the way in higher education by engaging first-year students academically and socially from the moment they set foot on campus.

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What you see is what you do

Learning with 'e's

Image from Public Domain Pictures In a previous post , I wrote about the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) and the challenges it faces as a technology for education. This can also aid the teacher in monitoring student understanding at a group level (McFarlane, 2015, p 26). Thirdly, IWBs are versatile as tools.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Knowledge can be created by the individual through reflection or developed through interaction at the intra- or inter-group levels. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people.

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Experiential Learning Simply Explained

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

We’ll also explore Kolb’s four-stage cycle of learning, a foundational framework that shapes experiential learning practices. This model, along with thought-provoking examples of experiential learning activities, offers tangible insights into how this methodology can be applied across diverse educational settings.