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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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As Andersen said, “It would help everyone if we all subscribe to a common core of competencies and associated learning objectives.” Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. The work completed in a CBE program could become part of a digital CV.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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