Edsurge
APRIL 20, 2020
Such experiences are all too common for transfer students like Kevin, and many others, who we interviewed as we conducted research for our book “ Choosing College.” From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.
Education Elements
JUNE 8, 2016
In the next couple of years, I was informally involved with the writing of the book, mainly serving as a sounding board to one of its co-authors, Michael Horn. During that time, I was proselytizing for the introduction of technology as an integral part of the curriculum, a mantra that mostly fell on deaf ears.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 21, 2019
As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit. percent between 2009 and 2017.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.
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