What Are The Best Blended Learning Resources For Teachers?
by TeachThought Staff
The following is a compilation of some of our favorite blending learning resources for teachers in 2020
Blended Learning Resources: Examples, Ideas, Benefits, and Definitions
1. The Definition Of Blended Learning
2. 12 Different Types Of Blended Learning
3. The Benefits Of Blended Learning
4. 6 Ways Teachers Are Using Blended Learning
5. 10 Drivers Of Blended Learning
6. 10 Steps Towards Creating A Blended Learning Program
7. 50 Of The Most Popular Online Courses Of All-Time
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: Learning Management Systems for K-12
9. IXL
10. Kiddom
11. Classter
12. Desire2Learn
13. Haiku Learning
14. Schoology
15. Edmodo
16. Blackboard
17. Feather Cap
18. Moodle
19. CK-12
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: University Resources & Free Open Courseware
21. Harvard University Open Courseware
22. Stanford University Open Courseware
23. Stanford University Open Learning Initiative
24. Yale University Open Courseware
25. University of Kentucky Open Courseware
26. UMass Boston Open Courseware
28. The Open Education Consortium
31. Open Courseware Consortium
32. P2PU
33. Washington State’s Open Course Library
35. Class Central
A portal for the best online courses–links, reviews, information, etc.
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: Free Online Texts & Library Resources
36. ipl2 (Internet Public Library)
38. Planet eBook
39. High Wire
40. OER Commons: Free Open Education Textbooks
42. OER Commons Lesson & Activity Builder
Flatworld Knowledge is a platform whose goal is to allow instructors to create affordable textbooks that can be printed or downloaded digitally.
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: Tools To Create & Organize Video Content
45-48. YouTube or Vimeo Pro or Voo Player
49. Google Drive (or Dropbox)
50. WeTransfer
51. HighTail
52. Flip
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: Video Content
54. YouTube Learning
57. Crash Course or Crash Course Kids
59. MIT K12 Videos
60. Bozeman Science
61. PBS Idea Channel
62. Numberphile
63. Vimeo Instructional Videos
Cloud-Based Grading Apps & Platforms For Blended Learning
Note, we have not had a chance to test these platforms out so these aren’t ‘recommended’ but rather offered as possibilities to learn more about. If we review any of these platforms in-depth, we’ll link to those reviews here.
64. Think Wave Gradebook
65. ZipGrade
66. Alma Gradebook
TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources: Content Curation & Sharing
These are all tools–among dozens and dozens of alternatives–that allow teachers and students to both find and curate learning materials, articles, texts, and more for blending learning activities and units.
Each of the above has a sweet spot–Storyify is more for social media ‘storytelling’ while Pocket is more for simple curation, while Paper.li is more of a ‘newspaper’ approach that allows users to share what they’ve found in a format that’s easy to read. Obviously, choose the best fit for you and your students.
67. Feedly
68. Pocket
69. Microsoft Teams
70. Flipboard
71. Paper.li
72. Scoop.it
73, 74. WordPress or Blogger (create simple websites to publish curated content)
75. Pearltrees
Other TeachThought Recommended Blended Learning Resources
76. Google Education
77, 78. Apple Keynote (also see Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint)
79. Google Forms
80. Slideshare
81. Scribd
82. iTunesU
83. iBook Author
84. TED: Ideas worth spreading
85. Dosomething.org
86. DIY.org
87. SeeSaw
88. Go Class
90. Newsela
91. ReadWorks
92. Read Theory
93. Go Formative
94. Voice Thread
95, 96 Zoom or Microsoft Teams
97. Khan Academy
98. Kahoot
99. Edgenuity
100 Of The Best Blended Learning Resources For Teachers [Updated For 2021]