Thursday, August 11, 2011

Report has good blended learning advice

An August, 2011 report from the management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group titled Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education calls for the creation of a "closed loop instructional system" to best employ technology in education.
The report focuses a great deal on the economics of edtech, but also offers these steps:
  • Establish educational objectives focused on twenty-first century skills
  • Develop relevant curriculum offerings by using opensource content (provided by higher education institutions, among others)
  • Deliver [some] instruction virtually
  • Embed frequent [formative] assessments with real-time, continuous feedback
  • Provide appropriate intervention with immediacy and customization (based on the assessments)
  • Track outcomes through data-management systems
The full report can be read here: http://www.bcg.com/expertise_impact/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-81207

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