eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Here are six top trends for educators, parents, and policymakers to understand. Even mainstream media has picked up on the trend and called it the fastest-growing segment of schooling. Parent power The bigger trend is that parents are feeling much more empowered to make choices about their children’s education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Stakeholders who determine the value to credentials and competencies are more concerned with competency-based learning (CBL), which is a broader concept than CBE. We all need to learn how to learn. This is backward design, starting with a focus on defining the desired learning outcomes.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Educators have also adjusted to teaching online, and this trend is here to stay even if most schools have reopened their doors. LMS-related features.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile. To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

He shared how this new tool may give hope to teachers striving to help all students while simultaneously drowning in a sea of data, standards, adaptations, assessments and growing needs. EdSurge: How can curriculum providers help schools address teacher burnout and reduce gaps in student learning?

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. Long before CBE was trending, Southern New Hampshire University gave it a test drive, largely in part to the vision of its president, Paul LeBlanc. That’s a competency. SNHU President Paul LeBlanc.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. They self-assess and give themselves a grade, which goes in the gradebook as long as it’s reasonable. Then I ask my students to make meaning of it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Ferreira’s new startup was just featured in a glowing New York Times article promising, once again, that machine learning and AI are going to revolutionize education. Coding Bootcamps.

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