Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. It also helped launch KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles whose blended design was Anthony Kim’s first project that led to the formation of Education Elements. So we were off and running.

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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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Here are six change management strategies that practitioners stressed as vital to driving new models of learning across traditional systems: 1. Open doors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Today, I lead a company that creates online models for teaching and learning, yet my mission is much the same as it was when I was in the classroom. Still others choose online learning because it can present a safe haven from bullying or other social pressures found in traditional schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This year NMC and CoSN have also put together a digital toolkit to help educators and policy leaders start conversations about these trends in their community, with the hope that some of the changes they see happening in pockets around the world will become more broadly accepted.

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