June 2012
By Meg Evans
Seeking to spur digital learning, the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (RIDE) created a competition to incentivize schools to innovate. Read about how RIDE got the word out to u...
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May 2012
By Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn
As blended learning continues to evolve, so does the research. This white paper provides key definitions related to blended learning and identifies four overarching models, down fro...
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April 2012
An open letter
A diverse group of over 60 educational leaders representing and working for a variety of organizations, from academic institutions to state boards of education and from foundations to education providers,...
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April 2012
By James Sloan
Too many products fail because companies don’t understand the job their customers are trying to do. Read about how AlphaSmart nailed the job for elementary school teachers and scaled across the country.
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February 2012
By Heather Staker
What can the K-12 sector learn from WGU about how to set up an information system for a competency-based model? Read this case study to find out.
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November 2011
By John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia
With contributing author Michael B. Horn
This volume offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all a...
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October 2011
By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Rosie O'Donnell
Follow Sentara Healthcare in Virginia as it prepares for significant changes in how health care will be delivered and priced in the future. Pilots focusing on chronic diseas...
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October 2011
By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Why have select integrated health systems outpaced their peers across nearly all quality and cost measures? The Christensen Institute has set out to answer this question by identifying the crit...
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August 2011
By Katherine Mackey
This case study explores the future of teaching by looking at how one online school, Advanced Academics, has rethought the current teaching model in a radical–and liberating–way.
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