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MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Video, of course, enables other innovations. We shall see. An example?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

During visits to two schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I was struck by how innovating where the alternative for students is nothing at all is still relevant, years after we wrote about the idea in “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008. I could never tell whether I was in a classroom with struggling or accelerated students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Of course, the flipped movement still has its critics. Jon Bergmann. Flipped OS.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. A week later, there’s a follow-up call.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say. To accomplish this, courses are year-long instead of being divided into semesters.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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