{"id":14361,"date":"2011-01-27T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14361"},"modified":"2011-01-27T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:01:05","slug":"the-rise-of-k-12-blended-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/27\/the-rise-of-k-12-blended-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/michaelhorn\/2011\/01\/27\/the-rise-of-k-12-blended-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; Michael Horn<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K\u201312 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K\u201312 students did. What was originally a distance- learning phenomenon no longer is, as most of the growth is increasingly occurring in blended-learning environments, in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this happens, online learning has the potential to transform America\u2019s education system by serving as the backbone of a system that offers more personalized learning approaches for all students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This week <a title=\"Innosight Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.innosightinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Innosight Institute<\/a> released a report about this phenomenon and opportunity titled \u201c<a title=\"The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning Executive Summary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.innosightinstitute.org\/media-room\/publications\/education-publications\/the-rise-of-k-12-blended-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">The rise of K-12 blended learning<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Written in conjunction with the Charter School Growth Fund and Public Impact, my coauthor and colleague Heather Staker and I use the report to try to bring clarity to a field that has had multiple definitions over what blended learning is. Ours is an overarching one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning &#8212; Michael Horn Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K\u201312 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K\u201312 students did. What was originally a distance- learning phenomenon no longer is, as most of the growth is increasingly occurring in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,99,46,206],"tags":[617,619,4,676],"class_list":["post-14361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-hybrid-learning","category-k-12-related","category-trends","tag-blended-learning","tag-hybrid-learning","tag-k-12","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14361\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}