What is valuable about the shift to blended learning?
Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline with the goal of giving students more control over the time, place, pace, and path of their learning.
Blended learning allows for greater personalization and flexibility, making learning more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. Blended learning effectively shifts the focus and locus of control from teacher to learner, allowing teachers to focus their energy on working with and supporting individual and small groups of students to ensure all learners progress toward firm standards-aligned goals.
Student Agency
Are you feeling frustrated by your students' lack of motivation?
It's crucial to understand that autonomy and agency are key to enhancing motivation. Blended learning offers a diverse range of instructional approaches designed to remove potential barriers and improve students' motivation and engagement levels.
Self-paced Learning
Are you dealing with unproductive behaviors in your classroom that distract from learning?
Many of the classroom management issues that surface in a classroom result from the misalignment between the pace at which learning is moving and the pace learners actually need it to move. Blended learning shifts some control over pacing to students to combat the challenges presented by a teacher-paced approach.
Differentiation & Personalization
Are you feeling daunted by the diversity of skills, abilities, and language proficiencies in your class?
It is nearly impossible to meet the diversity of needs in a classroom with a one-size-fits-all lesson. Instead, teachers can leverage blended learning models to differentiate and personalize learning to ensure all students are progressing toward firm, standards-aligned goals!
Course Curriculum
- Introduction: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous instruction (4:56)
- Lesson 1: Asynchronous Instruction–Tips for Creating Strong Video Content & Engaging Students Around that Instruction (13:46)
- Lesson 2: Flip & Engage–Design a Three Part Flipped Lesson (10:31)
- Lesson 3: Synchronous Instruction with Video Conferencing (15:12)
Meet Your Instructor
Leading Blended Learning Expert, Author, and Public Speaker
Dr. Catlin Tucker is an education expert, author, and speaker. She has over 16 years of experience in education and is a leading authority on how to effectively use technology in the classroom to improve student learning and increase teacher and student engagement. Dr. Tucker has written numerous articles and books on education and blended learning. She is available to speak at conferences and events.
Dr. Tucker was the 2010 Sonoma County Teacher of the year and also earned her doctorate in learning technologies from Pepperdine University. Currently, Dr. Tucker is working as a blended learning coach, education consultant, and professor in the Masters of Arts in Teaching program at Pepperdine University.
