Edsurge
APRIL 20, 2020
From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. Because schools stitch their majors and requirements together in proprietary, sometimes idiosyncratic ways, Econ 101 at one institution may in fact be quite different from the same course taught at another institution.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning. Web-based preferred.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 21, 2019
He said the school’s transition is still in progress, but the district has been fairly successful in its adoption of the proficiency-based model. Teachers visit to observe from around the state and country and the school was featured in videos made for a recent MIT online course , he said. percent between 2009 and 2017.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 8, 2018
In 2017, the education research firm Eduventures issued a report about 175 institutions with some level of CBE, even if just a course or two. STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING Another term for personalized learning, but tending to emphasize the needs of individual students rather than the goals of the teacher, school or district.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2016
President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. All of this is speculative, of course. It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C.
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. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.
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