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Blended Learning in the Traditional Classroom

It’s not about the hardware. No laptop, tablet, lapdock, or webtop is going to change education by virtue of its screen resolution, haptic capabilities or processor speed. However, a proliferation of free, cloud-based, high quality, curated curricular materials (videos in particular) just might.

Sal Khan is not the harbinger of a revolution in education because he is a great lecturer. Khan is a revolutionary because he has boldly stood up in the cloud to tell us that there is nothing holding us back from making educational materials free and ubiquitous. Dozens of others have risen to Khan’s challenge; many of whom are making high quality video that can replace traditional classroom lectures.

Read more at the New Media Consortium..

  1. Josh engberg
    September 9, 2012 at 8:39 pm | #1

    Looking forward to where you go this year and what we can all learn from it. BTW slick photo in the latest CTA mag ;-) . But aren’t you a bit too digital to show up in print media?

  2. September 11, 2012 at 10:02 am | #2

    Another great post Jack! Looking forward to learning from your Blend this year. Keep it up!

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