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Edutopia

Blended Learning

Looking for the right mix of face-to-face instruction with technology-mediated activities? Find tips and resources for structuring learning across a range of blended-learning models. 

  • How Long-Term Tech Planning Pays Off—Now and In the Future

    Three superintendents, all early adopters of blended learning, explain what it took to make their 21st century models work. (Hint: Good teachers and curriculum are still at the core.)
    Sarah Gonser

  • How to Make Effective Videos for Learning

    Instructional videos can help students learn at their own pace and free up time for teachers to support students individually.

  • Teaching Revision in a Blended Learning Environment

    Two teachers explain how they assign short writing tasks, give feedback quickly, and require revision before students can move on.
    Emily Culp, Toni Rose Deanon

  • 4 Tips for Teachers Shifting to Teaching Online

    An educator with experience in distance learning shares what he’s learned: Keep it simple, and build in as much contact as possible.
    Kareem Farah

  • A Student-Centered Model of Blended Learning

    When educators at a Washington, DC, high school ditched their lectures and devised a self-paced blended learning model, their students thrived.

  • A 5-Step Guide to Making Your Own Instructional Videos

    Replacing your lectures with self-made videos can boost students’ engagement and free you up to work with them directly.
    Kareem Farah, Robert Barnett

  • Station Rotation: Differentiating Instruction to Reach All Students

    Rotation stations allow students to learn in a range of modalities, while making differentiation manageable for one teacher.

  • 60-Second Strategy: Do Now Sheets

    A quick pen-and-paper warm-up activity helps teachers see that students are on track in a self-paced blended learning classroom.

  • Are We Innovating, or Just Digitizing Traditional Teaching?

    Blended learning has the potential to transform the way teachers teach and students learn—if we take advantage of all that it offers
    Beth Holland

  • Blended Learning Built on Teacher Expertise

    An inside look at a teacher-designed instructional model that combines blended learning, student self-pacing, and mastery-based grading.
    Kareem Farah

  • A School Built on Personalization

    Sal Khan founded a school on the same principles of personalization that drove the success of his YouTube tutorials.
    Tom Berger

  • Answers to Your Blended Learning Questions

    Teachers had a lot of questions about an Edutopia video featuring a blended learning model developed in a public high school, and the team behind that model has answers.
    Kareem Farah, Robert Barnett

  • Extending Classroom Management Online

    Nine suggestions to help you provide online learners with class norms and expectations and a sense of community.
    Heather Wolpert-Gawron

  • Professional Development Based on Reality TV

    Four challenges inspired by popular shows guide teachers to consider how to make the most of blended learning.
    Beth Holland, Tim Wilhelmus

  • Transitioning to Blended Learning

    See what integrating digital content with face-to-face instruction looks like in science and math.