Discover how New Hampshire is sustaining positive blended learning policies in its schools

blended-competencyAs new educational models gain support among educators and students who want to learn in new and different ways, blended learning is perhaps one of the strongest among these new models.

Now, researchers have discovered that some of these models work well together–for instance, blended learning and competency-based learning, another strong model in which students advance based on mastery and not grade level or time-in-seat, have evolved to overlap and complement one another.

A new report from the Clayton Christensen Institute, authored by Julia Freeland, notes that blended learning supports competency-based learning in at least four ways:

1. “Online content can offer a continuum of learning along which students can progress at a flexible pace.”

2. Assessments can be delivered on-demand when students are learning online.

3. Students have more than one lesson, or one information source, through which to access content, because online learning is delivered in a “more modular manner” than face-to-face instruction. This leads to students having “multiple pathways to mastery.”

4. Blended learning offers tools for personalized education, which can support districts that are trying to scale competency-based learning systems.

(Next page: How blended learning supports competency-based learning in five New Hampshire schools)

Laura Ascione

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