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

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Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Crisp and other #DLNchat -ters see the growth of CBE and its relevance to employers supported by the expansion of online learning. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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