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Connected learning in computing: Putting the best of blended teaching into practice – CAS Inspire

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    • The BlendEd team was delighted to be asked to showcase highlights of our own learning around blended delivery and part of Computing At School’s CAS Inspire programme. In this session, we also explain how we adapted delivery of our projects and how our pedagogy has developed to suit a blended context. We provide examples that exemplify our practice in relation to the three strands of the computing curriculum: information technology, digital literacy and computer science.

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