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.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

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. An example?

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

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. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 106

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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Competency Based Learning Company Learning Blended Learning 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). The promise of more time for active learning is key to the flipped appeal, its fans say. We feel that everything is changing,” says Sigrún Svafa, a Danish-language teacher in Iceland who has traveled across Europe as a flipped-learning trainer. “We Jon Bergmann.

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 132

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. It was a trade-off that veteran Juarez teachers say was worth it.

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 94

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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