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.
TeachThought - Learn better.
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. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.
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MindShift
JULY 9, 2015
If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
As Mallory Dwinal wrote in 2015 when she explored the opportunity for innovating where there are teacher shortages, states could also help by allowing these experiences to move away from seat-time requirements to mastery- or competency-based learning and giving districts some resources to evaluate and select the appropriate learning models.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told.
ExcelinEd
JUNE 10, 2019
This means schools will be able to look beyond the classroom for new learning experiences. Colorado has long been a leader in innovation, and the High School Innovative Learning Pilot Program is the perfect next step for the state. Building on 10 Years of Experience.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
In October, we will share a guide highlighting the trends, insights and challenges we've learned about while profiling five key players in the world of school redesign. In 2008, Adam Rubin and Todd Kern co-founded 2Revolutions , or 2Rev, because they believed the field of education was siloed, preventing innovation at scale.
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