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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Online games and assessments. According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. school principals, 97% of respondents said that their school was already using some form of edtech to personalize learning. . What are the benefits of creating a personalized learning environment? Digital field trips

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

Edsurge

Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

Edsurge

Our collective goal was to begin to rethink quality assurance in an educational system with an array of learning providers. Framework for the Future of Learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. Source: ReSchool).

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

So he’s joined a pioneering program based at MIT to take people like him, with experience in high-demand fields such as engineering, physics, math, languages, biology and neuroscience, and transform them into teachers. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

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. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. MONTPELIER, Vt.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

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. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.