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Blended Learning Research and Reports

 

Research and Books

 

2014

December

• A Guide to Implementing Digital Learning (SETDA). Provides a web based tool with links to other reports as well as reports from the field. The six areas covered in this implementation guide are: planning, professional support, content and software, broadband, devices and tech support. 
• Network Essentials for Superintendents. This guide from Education Superhighway provides important information for any education leaders who wants to understand the network infrastructure critical for schools. The network should be fast enough to meet your educational needs, cost-effective and maintainable over time. 
• Reimagining Teaching in a Blended Classroom. This report by TNTP focuses on the importance of every child having a quality teacher. This report provides excellent charts and idea about the skills needed by a blended learning teacher. Ultimately, teachers in a digital world need to be researchers and developers, integrators and guides. 
•  The Curriculum of the Future: How Digital Content is Changing Education. This report completed by the Center for Digital Education provides important information about what the future holds. Along with various charts suggesting a direction of digital curriculum, several thought leaders weigh in about the future of curriculum which may be largely digital and open and free. 
• Schools and Software: What's Now and What's Next. The Christensen Institute issued this report to provide information about the type of software needed by schools. Among other things, this report surveyed 30 education leaders in small to medium sized school districts and suggests that BYOD is the future. 
• Student Mathematics Performance in the First Two Years of Teach to One: Math. This report documents a blended learning approach in math classrooms in more than 10 schools in grades 6-8 on the east coast of the U.S.

 

November

 

• Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning. This 500-page report provides the most up-to-date research and policies about blended and online learning. Find all of the research, reports and important papers documented all in one place.   
• Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning. Provides a state by state overview regarding online and blended learning policy and practice. This is the 11th year of this report.   
• Personalized learning interim report from Rand and Gates Education. Provides information about the common elements that lead to personalized learning including learner profiles, personal learning paths, competency-based progression and flexible learning environments.
• Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning from Getting Smart in partnership with the Next Generation Learning Challenges Grant schools. Highlights schools across the U.S. who have followed three design principles: high expectations for college readiness, personalized learning for all students and a school model optimized for scale.

 

October

• Blended Teacher Competency Framework from iNACOL (Oct. 2014) . Provides a framework and shows the mindsets, qualities, adaptive skills and technical skills needed to be a blended learning teacher. 
• Understanding and Supporting Blended Learning Teaching Practices from Education Elements (Oct. 2014). Explains about the transfomation that takes place when blended learning is implemented. Highlights several schools where blended learning is being implemented. Shares a blended learning rubric that includes classroom culture, classroom management, planning and delivery, assessment and analysis and classroom technology. 
• Fueling A Personalized Learning Revolution in Secondary Schools from Fuel Education (Oct. 2014). Discusses structures of blended learning that can better personalize learning. 

 

September

• Beyond the Factory Model provides the context of Oakland Unified’s blended learning launch with the help of the Rogers Family Foundation. Includes the first year evaluation report from SRI as well as a variety of charts comparing blended learning classrooms with non-blended learning classrooms. Also provides a narrative about the challenges of the blended learning implementation.
• Knocking down Barriers: How California Superintendents are Implementing Blended Learning is the most recent Christensen Institute policy brief that identifies many of the barriers to blended learning and 11 tips for implementing blended learning for administrators.
• Carnegie Learning Math Curricula Significantly Improves Algebra Outcomes for Gary Community Corporation (Gary, IN). Carnegie Learning announced that the use of their blended math instruction software yielded a 10 percent increase in Algebra I district-wide.
• Blended learning research at Harvard University. Pilot study of blended courses indicates students value flexibility as well as in-person interaction with faculty, which could be via synchronous tools.

 

August

• Blended learning research at Harvard University. Pilot study of blended courses indicates students value flexibility as well as in-person interaction with faculty, which could be via synchronous tools. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/07/a-virtual-analysis/
• A Case Study of Blended Teaching and Learning in a New Zealand Secondary School (Discusses how blended teaching and learning was implemented in a New Zealand secondary school): http://journals.akoaotearoa.ac.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/view/193

 

2013

 

Mean What You Say from iNACOL (Oct. 2013). Provides definitions and information about the terms: blended learning, personalized learning and competency education. Discusses how these concepts interact with one another. 

 

And others:

 

• Michigan Virtual School Annual Report (2013). (New measures for online and blended learning).

• A Roadmap for Implementation of Blended Learning at the School Level: A Case Study of the iLearnNYC Lab Schools (R. Darrow, B. Friend, and A. Powell), 2013 http://www.inacol.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iNACOL_iLearnNYC_Case_Study_October2013.pdf

• Blended Learning Handbook 101  (Aspire Schools), 2013 http://aspirepublicschools.org/media/filer_public/2013/07/22/aspire-blended-learning-handbook-2013.pdf

• Blended Learning Implementation Guide (J. Bailey, S. Ellis, C. Schneider, T. Vander Ark), 2013 http://www.digitallearningnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DLNSmartSeries-BL-paper_2012-02-05a.pdf

• Blended Learning Resources (Clayton Christensen Institute), 2012 http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-3/

• Blended Learning Toolkit (University of Central Florida), 2011 http://blended.online.ucf.edu/

• Blended Learning Universe (Clayton Christensen Institute), 2012 http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-universe/

• Breakthrough Models for College Readiness: An Introduction to Next Generation Blended Schools (Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC)), 2012 http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NG1232.pdf

• iNACOL’s New Learning Models Vision (A. Powell), 2013 -http://www.inacol.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/iNACOL-New-Learning-Models-Vision-October-2013.pdf

• Lessons Learned from Blended Programs: Experiences and Recommendations from the Field (R. Ferdig, C. Cavanaugh, J. Freidhoff), 2012 http://www.inacol.org/resources/publications/inacol-books/#1737

• Online and Blended Learning: A Survey of Policy and Practice of K-12 Schools Around the World (M. Barbour, R. Brown, L. Hasler Waters, R. Hoey, J. Hunt, K. Kennedy, C. Ounsworth, A. Powell, and T. Trimm), 2011 http://www.inacol.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/iNACOL_IntnlReport2011.pdf

• Online and Blended Learning: Case Studies from K-12 Schools Around the World (M. Barbour, L. Waters, J. Hunt), 2011 http://www.inacol.org/resources/publications/inacol-books/#1737

• Opportunity By Design: New High School Models for Student Success (Carnegie Corporation of New York), 2013 http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Programs/Opportunity_by_design/Opportunity_By_Design_FINAL.pdf

• Promising Practices in Online Learning, Blended Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education (J. Watson), 2008 http://www.inacol.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/NACOL_PP-BlendedLearning-lr.pdf

• RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning (NGLC), 2013 http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/rethink-planning-and-designing-k%E2%80%9312-next-generation-learning

• The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado (K. Kafer), 2013 http://education.i2i.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IP-5-13-Kafer-Blended-Learning-web.pdf

• Transforming K-12 Rural Education through Blended Learning: Barriers and Promising Practices (E. Werth, L. Werth, E. Kellerer), 2013 http://www.inacol.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/iNACOL-Transforming-K-12-Rural-Education-through-Blended-Learning.pdf