The downside is that the process to arrive there can waste a lot of time and energy in reinventing the wheel, when, depending on the problem a school is trying to solve, the level of freedom it has to solve it, and the type of team it deploys to attack it, there is some predictability to the blended-learning model it is likely to adopt.
Just as business leaders should consider following the flipped classroom model for business presentations, think about deploying a blendedlearning approach for employees working outside your main office.
Where technology has helped transform education in online learning (both at a distance and in blended-learning models) it is because it has been implemented in a new learningmodel.