Blended learning: How does it work?
"Blended learning" -- a mix of virtual and face-to-face instruction -- is all the rage, endorsed by a 2009 Education Department meta-analysis. Education Week looks at how it works.
“Everybody’s talking about blended, but you talk to ten different people, and there are ten definitions of what it is,” said Steven Guttentag, the executive vice president and chief education officer of the Baltimore-based Connections Academy, which operates online schools in 21 states.At the Chicago Virtual Charter School, a partnership with K12 Inc., an e-learning company, "each student spends two hours and 15 minutes in a classroom one day a week and spends the rest of the school week working virtually from home." Students, who are in kindergarten through 12th grade, meet with the same teacher online and in the classroom. The Florida Virtual School (FLVS) uses several models. In one, students meet in a