Early on in our "Innovative Learning Environments" project we realized that most of the environments involved blended learning in some form. This was particularly true for flipped learning, which seemed to be a good way to get teachers interested in posting materials and starting to interact with students online.
Some teachers were particularly excited about flipped learning, and started making videos and posting interactive and text-based resources. I liked being able to show them various options for creating videos and places to organize and curate content, such as Moodle, Edmodo, Google Sites, and others. Different choices appealed to different teachers based on their experience and needs, or those of their students.
The great thing about teachers posting materials online was that it gave students, and in most cases parents, a place to get information about the class. More importantly it started to create an online space for interactions with the teacher and among students. This space was sometimes used synchronously, but more often was used outside of class time. Teachers even found that absent students could keep up with what they needed to learn and do.
Not to upstage the Horizon Report, but I think it won't be long until most learning is blended learning. One of our favorite quotes from a teacher about her experience with blended learning was, "I won't go back to teaching the way I used to." I think that epitomizes the goals of the AISI project and innovative learning environments.
