Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools (Custom EditionÂEducation Element)

Praise for Blended

"There is a lot of hope and misunderstanding around onlinelearning and its relation to in-person learning. Blendedclearly shows that it isn't an either-or proposition, but ratherthat the most likely future is one in which online experiencesenrich the physical ones and vice versa. Even more, the book givesconcrete examples of how educators, parents, and learners can moveus all to a world where technology makes the classroom more human,not less."
—SALMAN KHAN, founder, Khan Academy; author, The OneWorld Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

"Blended is the essential guide to move beyond therhetoric about personalized learning and toward a practicalstrategy. It provides a powerful framework that challengesconventional wisdom about how schools should respond to the digitalage."
—JEB BUSH, chairman, Foundation for Excellence inEducation; former governor, Florida

"The authors' real genius is in using research and theory totake the guesswork out of moving our schools forward into thetwenty-first century."
—JIM HUNT, foundation chair, The Hunt Institute; formergovernor, North Carolina

"Teachers will play a critical role in the transition to blendedlearning. This book gives a roadmap for including educators in thedesign of blended learning and for thinking through ways to empowergreat teachers."
—VICKI PHILLIPS, director of education, Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation

"Several years ago Michael Horn told us in DisruptingClass how online learning would rapidly affect modern teachingand learning. In Blended, Horn and Staker move fromprediction to practice, detailing through solid research,observation, and case studies how blended learning is transformingtraditional schools into 24-7 learning centers."
—BOB WISE, president, Alliance for Excellent Education;former governor, West Virginia

MICHAEL B. HORN is co-founder and executive director ofEducation at the Clayton Christensen Institute for DisruptiveInnovation and co-author of Disrupting Class: How DisruptiveInnovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill,2008) with Clayton Christensen and Curtis Johnson. His insightshave been highlighted in his recurring column for Forbes aswell as The Washington Post, The Economist, Huffington Post,and Education Week.

HEATHER STAKER is senior research fellow in Education atthe Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. One ofthe world's foremost experts on K–12 blended learning, she hasappeared on radio, television, and in legislative hearings acrossthe country as a spokesperson for harnessing innovation to improveschools.