For the past few years at the Institute, we’ve heard stories about Brazilian teachers trying out blended learning. Since then, some of these teacher-led initiatives have flourished into school-wide programs around the country. To explore these trends more deeply, we published our first international blended-learning research paper in November, Blended Beyond Borders, in partnership with the WISE Initiative. This paper offers a snapshot of blended-learning in Brazil, Malaysia, and South Africa, as well as giving policymakers and practitioners recommendations on how they can help blended efforts prosper in their context.
Our partnerships with the Lemann Foundation, Peninsula Institute, Porvir, Nova Escola, and Todos Pela Educação were instrumental in gathering data and understanding the landscape of the public and private Brazilian education system. Through these partners, we administered a survey to capture whether and why schools were going blended. After answering a series of questions asking what types of technology a teacher or school used, survey respondents told us why they started to use technology in their classrooms. Providing more options for students (73.64% of both administrators and teachers), facilitating more personalized student learning (71.82%), facilitating competency-based learning (67.27%), and improving student academic outcomes (61.82%) were the top reasons educators gave for using technology.
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