Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But one question left unanswered is how does competency-based education seamlessly mix or align in an environment where students are completing personalized lessons using a learning management system (LMS)? I asked a group of superintendents and school principals from New Hampshire about this during a round table discussion.

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Competency Based Learning Blended Learning Education Blackboard 181

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Personalized Learning Competency Based Learning Blended Learning EdTech 127

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.

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Blended Learning Classroom Blendspace Learning 40

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Starting something in these areas means that, by definition, there is typically more upside than downside because the alternative is that students will have no other options. From this base, Chesapeake High School, for example, is experimenting with blended learning throughout the school and allowing teachers more freedom to innovate.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 115

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Those barriers include “(1) student assessments that don't accurately reflect students’ true understandings and skills and (2) methods for grouping students (by age) that often poorly align to their true needs as learners.”. There are two separate K-2 groupings, one second/third grade group, and a fourth/fifth group.

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Assessment Elementary Data Groups 160

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In addition to the platform, the company has also brought together 75 experts to form a group which they call the “talent cloud.” The company uses a blended approach pairing in-person activities with the use of the InspirED platform to help practitioners transform their practice.

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