Share Paper: Best Practices in Blended Practice: A Thematic Analysis of Blended Teaching Artifacts

1. Cecil R Short, Brigham Young University, United States
2. Emily Sabey, Brigham Young University, United States

Abstract: This project was designed to help identify practices important to blended teaching by uncovering the strategies that teachers use as part of blended teaching and the tools or artifacts that help them implement those strategies. To complete this work, the authors partnered with The Learning Accelerator to gain access to their rich repository of blended teaching vignettes. The researchers have currently gathered 471 vignettes related to blended teaching strategies, and 137 vignettes related to problems teachers and/or schools face in blended settings. These artifacts and vignettes were analyzed using a thematic coding process using a prior codes from a resource ...