London's Metropolitan Police tried the software alongside classroom teaching.
In Birmingham, David Brodie sees exercise-related approaches as something that would run alongside classroom-based support for children with reading problems.
The company also plans to invest in international expansion, through localization, translation and distribution partnerships, and techniques for blended learning, in which Coursera's online materials are used alongside classroom sessions with a professor.
Schools are employing a variety of staffing models to meet the challenge – from recruiting a specialist to teach across the school, to employing a native speaker from the local community to work alongside classroom teachers or running training sessions with staff from local secondary schools.
They also experience an unconventional education in which hands-on learning through activities such as gardening sits alongside classroom lessons.
Here, we outline an approach that proposes the implementation of a nutrition and physical fitness program, alongside classroom pedagogy, as a means of helping students learn about evolution and how it can be used to increase their own quality of life.
In much the same vein as Coursera, Learnist is looking to create a network that applies to both formal and continuing education and can be used alongside classroom tools like Schoology and Edmodo to create a more holistic classroom learning experience, for example, while giving casual learners a place to store and view their various learning projects.
The school used to mainstream the children all day, with a special-education teacher working alongside the classroom teacher.
Alongside each classroom is a smaller, cubicle-sized room in which students gather to write together, rehearse and jam.
Blended learning is education involving students studying courses online at their own pace, alongside traditional classroom teaching.
