Innosight Produces a Revised Blended Learning Taxonomy
The Innosight Institute, which penned the first blended learning taxonomy last year, recently revised their classifications in a new report: Classifying K-12 Blended Learning.
View ArticleNext Gen Learning Challenges Awards 8 New Winners (13 Total; 7 Remaining)
With support from my team at the Gates Foundation, The Next Generation Learning Challenges: Wave IIIa awards startup grants to and supports community building among “breakthrough school models for...
View ArticleRace to the Top for Districts: $400m for Personalized Learning
The U.S. Department of Education’s latest Race to the Top application is out. With a whopping $400m for approximately 20 winning proposals from individual LEAs or consortia of LEAs to implement...
View Article10 Blended Learning Predictions for 2013 by Michael Horn & Heather Staker
Michael Horn and Heather Staker of Innosight Institute have 10 predictions for blended learning in 2013. The first few predict that more blended learning in different forms will happen (e.g. more...
View ArticleHardware is Not a Strategy (and Other Advice for School Developers): Part 1
Our team at the Gates Foundation funds a variety of innovative schools as part of our Next Generation Models strategy. Because of that, people who are developing new schools (let’s call them “School...
View ArticleChristensen Institute on Disruptive Innovation in K-12 Education
Fresh off renaming itself the Clayton Christensen Institute for DISRUPTIVE Innovation, the think tank formerly known as Innosight appropriately released a very important paper titled “Is K–12 blended...
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