George Lucas Educational Foundation
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. 

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Getting Rid of the Lecture Bottleneck

    Getting rid of the lecture in math class means that students can work at their own pace while teachers differentiate instruction.
    Kareem Farah

  • Transitioning to Blended Learning

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

  • Arriving at a Definition of Learning

    Personalized and blended learning and differentiated instruction should be viewed as interrelated supports for deep learning.
    Beth Holland

  • Tech Integration in Blended Learning

    Teachers can deepen student learning by making the most of classroom technology.
    John McCarthy

  • 4 Tips for Managing Blended Learning

    Google Classroom can help with some of the logistical issues that blended learning creates for teachers and students.
    Kathryn Nieves

  • 3 Positive Outcomes of Blended Learning

    Reflecting on her first year of blended learning, a veteran teacher saw increased student engagement, accountability, and adaptability.
    Sharon Duncan-Hudspeth