How Can We Use Micro-credentials to Assess Competency-Based Education?
Digital Promise
JULY 6, 2023
An overview of competency-based learning and assessments, and the unique competency-based micro-credential framework Digital Promise has developed
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Digital Promise
JULY 6, 2023
An overview of competency-based learning and assessments, and the unique competency-based micro-credential framework Digital Promise has developed
American Consortium for Equity in Education
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING A favorite returning guest and a true leader in the field trying to bring about great changes in assessment and student preparation for careers, from New Hampshire, Fred Bramante.
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Neo LMS
MARCH 28, 2017
Graduating higher education while having a full-time job and/or a family seems almost impossible for too many students. The traditional education model makes no compromises: you’re either all in, or you’re not. Students need to attend certain courses at certain times and be assessed in certain ways. There are no grades.
Neo LMS
APRIL 19, 2022
All educational acts should and usually do revolve around them. The purpose of education is no longer to pass on theoretical knowledge. Competency-based education plays an essential role in this endeavor. Competency-based learning is easier to implement when you have the right tools.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Then COVID-19 catapulted education into crisis mode, forcing her and all students and teachers into at-home learning situations across the world. Asmaa, Ismail and their peers in public education were caught in the perfect storm of school closures and an unplanned and awkward move to online learning.
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 29, 2016
New Hampshire and educator John Martin are at the forefront of the competency-based learning movement. In today’s show, we’ll give you an overview of competency-based learning including some of the benefits and the problems. Even assessment changes with competency-based learning.
Neo LMS
JULY 15, 2021
Higher Education (HE) has significantly lagged behind other industries on the road to digitization. Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. Read more: 3 Ways in which edtech enables hybrid learning.
Edsurge
MAY 22, 2017
Principal Chris Huckans believes that competency-based education (CBE) is one of the keys to the school’s success. Huckans says that Bishop Hall’s use of the Brightspace learning management system provides students with highly personalized learning pathways, which “allow them to innovate and experiment.”
eSchool News
OCTOBER 4, 2018
In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified by an A-F grading scale, was the most thorough manner of assessing students given the lack of unifying systems that could track and chart specific skill development. So what school-wide practices support true competency-based education?
Neo LMS
AUGUST 23, 2022
Personalized learning is currently emerging as one of the biggest trends in education. Learn what it means, what benefits it brings, and what teachers need to create a personalized learning environment for students. What is personalized learning? Online games and assessments. Video conferencing tools.
Neo LMS
MARCH 29, 2022
These objectives are the “why” behind your actions – the reason why you teach students and engage them in the learning process. In this article, we will explore the topic of SMART learning objectives in depth. Finally, SMART goals will help you continuously optimize and improve your teaching and assessment. .
Neo LMS
MAY 10, 2022
Even if schools strived to offer the best support and equitable distance learning opportunities, this was not always possible. Not all educational institutions could properly equip all their teachers with technology to ensure a smooth remote teaching experience. What are learning gaps in education?
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear. Case in point. The rest is now history.
Neo LMS
JUNE 28, 2022
It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . Today’s educational technology makes it easier to support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond it. They don’t only help educators teach and assess students.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2023
I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. Our world presents increasingly complex challenges.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 9, 2017
A new online guide offers resources for K-12 districts trying to implement competency-based learning—and it offers a primer for K-12 companies on those systems' most pressing needs. The post ‘Toolkit’ Breaks Down K-12 Districts’ Shifts Into Competency-Based Learning appeared first on Market Brief.
Neo LMS
APRIL 6, 2017
In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge. What’s in it for students.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2023
Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. We should ask no less of ourselves.
Neo LMS
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
, which Dweck associates with a false growth mindset, won’t help them achieve their learning goals, at least not in the long run. Educators need to be consistent with the messages they send and incorporate a growth mindset in what they do, including technology — or especially in the way they use technology to teach.
Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Students with special educational needs and/or disabilities are often overlooked in the grand scheme of education. One thing that I’ve been thrilled about is that technology and online learning have really supported these students to continue their education, even though the pandemic disrupted many systems and processes.
A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 16, 2022
It was a one-size-fits-all approach centered on the teacher making all the decisions from an instructional standpoint at the expense of developing competent learners who can think. Like many things in education, elements of ITIP still have value depending on how they are used.
Turning Learning On Its Head
MARCH 13, 2016
During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.
Neo LMS
MAY 18, 2021
Innovation in education is a must if we want to keep up with technology and global advancements. There has to be a paradigm shift in our approach to education. Teaching needs to be student-centered, but most of all, it should be based on the graduate profile. Mastery-based learning is a competency-oriented teaching method.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.
Digital Promise
MARCH 6, 2023
This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. Shifting from threat to opportunity in K-12 innovation In educational futurist Michael B.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 23, 2017
Thus, many educators, including myself, now refer to these as essential skills. The other day I was speaking with Rose Else-Mitchell , a wickedly smart educational leader, who pushed my thinking on the whole skills conversation. The Rigor/ Relevance Framework helps us move from a focus on skills to competency-based learning.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Educators are fundamentally learners, as well as masters of assessing and adjusting learning opportunities. Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. Micro-credentials offer educators that opportunity.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 19, 2017
One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. So last year, when my district revamped their professional learning strategy with a competency-based focus, micro-credentials naturally played a big part.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2021
High school seniors have worried about how virtual learning will impact their grade-point averages as they apply for college; students working full time — because their families need the additional financial support during the pandemic — or caring for ill family members have struggled to stay focused on school at all.
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.
Neo LMS
AUGUST 6, 2019
It is important to have many assessment types if you want to keep everything online. Read more: What is the role of rubrics in performance-based education? Plus, an LMS offers flexible options such as non-graded assessments. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning. Conclusion.
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2017
Consider the implications this has for the nature of education in childhood. Children will need to master skills and competencies relevant to this emerging world of work. We often think about competency-based learning as an input—a method of instruction that is mastery based and not time-based.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Learning. by Terry Heick. That’s good.
MindShift
JULY 9, 2015
It’s no longer a given that if a child spends twelve years in school, he or she will learn enough to succeed in higher education or a career. To address this issue, some educators are taking bold measures to help students. They also designed the infrastructure that supports it and learned some big lessons during implementation.
Edsurge
APRIL 18, 2023
Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress. Like the reality that it takes different students different amounts of time to acquire skills. “It That would be a very risky proposition.”
Digital Promise
APRIL 8, 2016
Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. Four recent developments have set the stage for micro-credentials: #1 – Competency-based learning for students. 3 – Research base for a new approach to professional learning.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
As the number of districts and states adopting micro-credentials into their professional learning strategy continues to grow, it is critical that stakeholders step back to take a pulse of the ecosystem. Continuing the Educator Micro-credential Movement does just that. Micro-credential Assessment Infrastructure. Download [7.50
Edsurge
DECEMBER 1, 2021
But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? Ideally, integration with our assessments. For those who may not know that concept, what is your elevator pitch for mastery learning? How is that part going? We need training.
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Educators and learners have started to realize that the traditional teacher input and student reproduction of information could no longer ensure learners’ successful transition from students to active citizens contributing to the labor market. 9 Characteristics of authentic learning. Well, that’s not enough anymore!
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 22, 2019
Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. In fact, in so many ways, it brings common sense back to education.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.
Edsurge
AUGUST 30, 2016
As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.
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