Group Raising Funds To Invest In Blended Learning Research

KQED San Francisco (10/18, Schwartz) reports that Silicon Solutions, a new non-profit organization, is looking to raise $25 million to invest in research into blended learning. "With partial grants from the Bay Area's Fisher family (owners of Gap), and the advice of board members Michael Horn from the Innosight Institute and Salman Khan of the Khan Academy, the nonprofit, which has raised $12 million so far, aims to fund new and innovative approaches in existing blended learning programs with grants to each school. ... The movement is in its infancy. There is no blended-learning canon that can be taught to teachers - they are the ones who need to write the playbook."