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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

Interoperable networks don’t just allow teachers to share information with each other, but also streamline outside learning tools directly to students. Georgia’s Total Learning Architecture , a similar project, acts as a hub for students and teachers to access traditional, virtual, personalized and competency-based learning.

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Does Your District Have a Solid Data Foundation?

Tom Murray

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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Southern New Hampshire University’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

Edsurge

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. On a flight from Kuala Lumpur to New York in 2011 LeBlanc wrote “a little white paper” that set the stage for SNHU’s foray into direct-assessment programs. That’s a competency. earlier this month.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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