Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

Classroom 215

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

But it was not initially clear what technology platform UniversityNow had left to sell, since in 2015 the company sold its competency-based learning platform to Penn Foster Education Group. The board has been great at investing in new technologies.”

Competency Based Learning 67

Competency Based Learning Company System Libraries 67

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

At Whittier, only 30 of the 141 graduates in 2015 had gained full-time employment that required passing the bar. Simply put, disruption is lessening the need for lawyers, which means law schools are producing too many lawyers for positions that increasingly do not exist.

Competency Based Learning 108

Competency Based Learning Advocacy Online Learning Training 108

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning.

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Education STEM Competency Based Learning Wiki 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

From 2011 - 2015, 2Rev shifted their work to focus on assisting schools, districts and states with building future of learning models and helping those models succeed and scale. Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities.

Competency Based Learning 60

Competency Based Learning Company Learning Blended Learning 60

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

Competency Based Learning 86

Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 86

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Bolduc spent the 2015-2016 year focused on intentionally weaving CARES into instruction, and helping students set goals to make progress on each habit. We saw Andy Calkins speak at a conference about MyWays in the summer of 2015 and we practically rushed the stage to talk to him afterward,” Hume-Howard laughs.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 83

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015, educators at New Technology High School in Napa, California embarked on a mission to rehabilitate their sluggish eportfolio program and get some eyes on student work. I always thought, ‘To what end and why do we do this? How do we make it more relevant, more shareable?’”

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. First, the basics.

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System Assessment Guidelines Meeting 107

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

I would argue that the principles laid out in the book are critical for moving to competency-based learning, as you need strong, clear, and consistent standards-based grading (SBG) practices to get there. Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work by Brian M.

Competency Based Learning 52

Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. experimental sites” that received approval from the Department of Education to use federal financial aid dollars for competency-based education and prior learning assessment initiatives.

Competency Based Learning 90

Competency Based Learning OER Assessment Company 90

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over winter break in 2015, I found myself scouring the internet for career alternatives that would take me out of the classroom. I came away from the institute eager to try inquiry-based instruction in my class during the 2015-16 school year.

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Data Classroom Strategy Student Engagement 163

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. In the mastery-based learning world, this is largely seen as a positive move.

Learning 107

Learning Common Core System Groups 107

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. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. A new competency-based learning and employment ecosystem is emerging despite traditional federal rules and guidelines. That begs the question: how will the federal government adapt?

Education 60

Education Policies Competency Based Learning Advocacy 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46