Strengthen school-CBO partnerships through blended learning
Blended learning – blending online and site-based learning – could dramatically reshape how community-based organizations (CBOs) partner with schools and parents. Although CBOs are making essential contributions to education, most have been sitting on the sidelines of this nascent blended learning revolution. On July 27, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education and The After-School Corporation (TASC) convened a meeting ...more »
Blended learning – blending online and site-based learning – could dramatically reshape how community-based organizations (CBOs) partner with schools and parents. Although CBOs are making essential contributions to education, most have been sitting on the sidelines of this nascent blended learning revolution. On July 27, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education and The After-School Corporation (TASC) convened a meeting to help address this challenge.
The discussion paper and meeting notes are here:
http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/fbci/blendedcbo.pdf
I will submit the key recommendations from the meeting as individual ideas.
The macro-level idea for this post is that digital learning initiatives are mostly centered on schools and there should be a stronger and systemic focus on partnerships between schools and community-based organizations.
Michael Robbins, Senior Advisor for Nonprofit Partnerships, U.S. Department of Education
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