Accelerating Achievement With Blended Learning

 edX, a $60 million Harvard-MIT partnership in online education, university leaders spoke of reaching millions of new students in India, China and around the globe. They talked of the "revolutionary" potential of online learning, hailing it as the "single biggest change in education since the printing press."

Our school’s board chose to adopt this strategy in 2012 to take advantage of the online learning revolution, which  Harvard and MIT call “the single biggest change in education since the printing press.”

Students Learn Better With Blended Learning
Blended learning students learn better than those in traditional, face-to-face instruction-only or online-only instruction, according to a comprehensive online learning study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education.

The leading group studying the impact of blended learning in education, the Innosight Institute, defines blended learning as:

“a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace and at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.”

 Learning Is No Longer Restricted By

• The school day or school year
• The walls of the classroom
• Instruction from the teacher (the computer does what it does best by customizing learning)
• The pace of an entire classroom of students (Digital Learning Now)

Blended-Learning Model Definitions