Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s more, the framework will also help surface unanswered research questions on where we need better guidance to serve individual learners in particular circumstances—not on-average research-based findings. There is a significant body of research on how kids vary in how they learn best. Competency-based learning is one of these.

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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)? This is an exciting concept, and one that I plan on implementing at Wheatley in the spring.

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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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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. The company offered three main types of support that align with its thesis: school design, school model implementation support, and systems design and implementation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I’m thrilled he wrote it, as I think it holds up a mirror to all of us working in the world of competency-based education about where we can do better. If you don’t understand that the traditional system of education is designed to rank and sort students, then it’s really hard to understand competency-based education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. Because our education system is built to standardize, not personalize, transforming it through disruptive innovation is critical.

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