Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

I had the opportunity to meet Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term “disruptive innovation,” at the Education Commission of the States’ annual conference where he gave a keynote address. Then in 2005, I had an epiphany. So we were off and running.

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Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning 100

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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Competency Based Learning Learning System Assessment 28

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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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

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. The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning.

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