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 learning model.

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Carpe Diem Collegiate Middle and High School, one of my favorite blended-learning models, has no physical education class.

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Blended-learning models that create time for teachers to provide this type of meaningful and actionable feedback are vital.

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On the other hand, increasing numbers of schools are adopting blended-learning models that have each student working with multiple software providers within one subject.

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Various blended-learning models, for example, should create more flexibility and free up more funds so that schools can offer an array of experiences, including physical exercise.

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If it wants to work with multiple content providers on the other hand, there is a good bet it might work with a company like Education Elements, which is emerging as a leader in helping schools move to blended-learning models and offering a single sign-on software solution for schools so they can easily work with multiple content vendors.

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First, many schools are embarking upon a variety of design processes, RFPs from vendors and the like only to arrive at the same cluster of solutions centered around the basic models of blended learning we identified here.

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