Heather Staker: "The question ... is whether blended learning becomes a disruptive innovation to today's brick-and-mortar classrooms or a sustaining innovation for them." Blended learning isn't like ...

Picture this: You’re on top of an 80-story building and must wear a harness to protect yourself if you fall. But there are different kinds of harnesses lying around. You pick what you think is the ...

We all know the feeling of having our class finally approach cruising altitude—only to hear that our peers, administrators, and the Internet at large have just discovered the next best way of ensuring ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Preston Cooper writes about the economics of higher education. Despite the aspirations of many leaders in higher education, most ...

Every learning modality has its limitations. Strictly classroom/in-person-based learning has come under increasing scrutiny over the last decade as the sophistication and availability of education ...

One of the biggest complaints about blended learning is that educators don’t know if it really has a positive impact on student achievement, and if so, under what circumstances. Sarah notes that ...

Blended Learning is a term used to describe instruction using both face-to-face contact and online interaction. As this instructional mode became more widespread, concerns among instructors at ...

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Last week, 13-year-old Ash Blakely decided to switch schools, and his mom thinks there's been something different about him since. "There's just a little bit more of a smile on his face," Melanie Ford ...