EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. Ideally, integration with our assessments. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

To do that, the organization plans to work with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the folks behind standardized tests including the GRE and the Praxis — to create new tools designed to assess what students are able to do, not how much time they spent studying to do it. Colleges that are trying it have lessons to share.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Last year, like many schools, Parker-Varney navigated months of remote learning, in which standardized tests were disrupted and absences soared. Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. And Daniel A.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Educators are fundamentally learners, as well as masters of assessing and adjusting learning opportunities. Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. Micro-credentials offer educators that opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Actual learning—not a piece of paper—should be the goal for every student. That recommendation, if realized, would bind LA Unified to a time-bound, one-size-fits-all model that fails to focus on the most important criterion—whether a student has learned the material. They simply can’t move on until they’ve grasped the subject matter.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Continuing education programs arose in the 19th century to meet the critical workforce and social needs of the time. Competency-based education has become a hot trend in recent years, and it is no coincidence that one of the few direct assessment programs that the Department of Education has approved is at a continuing education school.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

We have pushed many state districts to make significant policy changes that align with instructional and educational best practices, and have encouraged teachers, administrators, and districts to innovate educational systems design. Below are the four I believe loom largest: 1. Defining Proficiency How do you define “proficient?”

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. That was another hard question we had to confront when it was asked by a Spanish teacher at a department meeting not long ago.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. It’s everyone getting what they need.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. Sanborn Regional School District immediately saw the benefits of a competency-based system and began experimenting with the model.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Those contrasting experiences made her believe that one-size-fits-all educational systems don’t work. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle. MELROSE, Mass.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

To help schools establish a philosophical and pedagogical foundation for their work, the Great Schools Partnership created the following “Ten Principles of Proficiency-Based Learning,” which describe the common features found in the most effective proficiency-based systems. 10 Principles Of Proficiency-Based Learning.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform. A personalized learning platform can support teachers in meeting the needs of each and every one of their students, no matter if we’re talking about classes of 15 preschoolers or 15,000 university students. Let’s explore each of these aspects: Learning goals.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

So they, often in partnership with daring leaders, are pushing back, trying to find ways to meet the long-held goal of educators: Meeting each student’s needs and helping all to be successful. The report also identifies some key system changes that would support the grass-roots work that has already begun.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These activities’ requirements are a video conferencing tool that preferably integrates with your learning management system (LMS) and basic knowledge of creating online lessons, which the LMS already enables teachers to do. 5 More principles of effective online instruction. Aim for a high success rate.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Since then, CBE has trickled down into the K-12 system, where enthusiasm and support have led to statewide policies supporting the development of such programs in regions like New England. Julia Freeland Fisher.

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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. Advocates respond that the current education system is not working.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The middle school has started using an online system to guide self-paced learning, and Ms. With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. Letting Adult Learners Show What They Know.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Big Universe is now available in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There’s an assumption that virtual school students are closed off, online all day, and they don’t ever meet anyone. During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At that time, more than 80 percent of students were failing to meet state proficiency standards , and the school was graduating less than half of its students. Our students have immense talent but this system handicaps them.”. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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