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Coursera: New Models of Education for Teachers: Blended Classrooms
Editor’s note: Brian Greenberg is the co-founder of Silicon Schools Fund and a former high school teacher, principal and administrator.If 2013 was the “Year of the MOOC”, my hope is that 2014 will be the “Year of the Blend.” Just as online courses are disrupting our assumptions about higher education, our K-12 education system is brimming with enthusiasm about blending the best of online learning with the best of traditional schools. Make no mistake, it is early in this movement and the going will be hard. Most of the online learning software is still mediocre, it can be tough to implement, and we have to figure out how to provide support and inspire the nation’s teachers to play a new role in the learning process. But if we can get this right, “blended learning” has tremendous potential to dramatically improve education for students and teachers. As a small step towards making this vision a reality, we are launc…