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Blended learning integrates face-to-face and online resources to create a coherent learning experience. Learning happens across place and time, and all elements are combined fluidly and intentionally within a formal, “brick and mortar” educational structure. These in-person and technologically-enabled elements inform and amplify each other coherently and cohesively. In this topic, explore how educators do this through:

  • Blended Model Type
  • Schedule/Time
  • Use of Space
  • Extended Learning
Blended Model Type

Blended learning classrooms employ different structural models to integrate in-person and online learning components. The Christensen Institute has developed a taxonomy to describe these models.
Schedule/Time

Blended and personalized classrooms often use time more flexibly, using non-traditional schedules to allow students to work at their own pace, alone, with peers, or in smaller groups.
Use of Space

In blended and personalized classrooms, educators use space (physical and digital) flexibly, adapting spaces to learning tasks and needs.
Extended Learning

In blended and personalized learning, students often access resources and complete learning work outside of traditional school boundaries and time.

Use of Space

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Bronx Arena High School

Arenas (Four-Hour Time Blocks)

Large blocks of time that enable students to work through their courses with flexible, personalized supports

Locust Grove Middle School

Assessment Labs

Large classrooms designed for students to take assessments in and work through online content with minimal instructional support

Locust Grove Middle School

Makerspaces

Large classrooms with resources to support students’ project-based learning

Lovett Elementary School

Trust-System, Modular Furniture, and Flexible Work Spaces

Structures, resources, and systems to allow for greater student agency with traditional spaces

Trailblazer Elementary School

Trailblazer's Team-Based Flexible Learning Spaces

Students move between learning spaces based on their learning preferences and needs

Navigator Schools

One-Way Streets

Ensuring efficient student movement

Pleasant View Elementary School

Pleasant View's Flexible Use of Space

Leveraging large adjacent room to provide multiple learning environments for students

LPS Richmond

Team Work Tables

Tables grouped throughout class to enable small groups and improve team orientation

Roots Elementary

Learning Zones

Highly intentional use of space to create a variety of learning opportunities

CICS West Belden

Creative Furnishings and Spaces

Special seats and places to offer choice and engage

CICS West Belden

West Belden's Open Doors

Opening traditional classroom entries and exits to expand learning space and options