The new paper whittles six categories of blended learning down to four: the rotation model, the flex model, the self-blend model, and the enriched-virtual model.

The concept of blended learning has been around since the 1960s, but only recently has it taken off as a methodology, enabled by technology, for integrating traditional and virtual classrooms.

Blended learning–a combination of face-to-face and online learning–is piloted in schools and districts across the nation. Advocates note that students are able to learn at a more individualized pace, ...

Drawing from research from Clayton Christensen, the report outlines four blended learning models: rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and/or Enriched Virtual. Rotation is defined as, “Any course or subject in ...

The Innosight Institute this week released a new white paper in which it takes the previous six categories it created to differentiate blended learning models and, well, blends them. The 22-page ...

Enriched virtual models include any school where students get most of their ... Supporters also note that that a blended learning model might be of great benefit in a school where layoffs have ...

In the year ahead we will see more public schools adopt blended learning, meaning online learning in physical schools. Blended learning is no longer entirely new or untried, and school leaders are ...

In some learning models, online learning acts as a supplement to conventional instruction, while others make online learning the backbone of it, Arnett says. The latter, which includes the enriched ...