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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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis. Or students can create joint projects using collaboration tools like Padlet, she adds.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. I credit technology—and superheroes. Here’s our wall of work.

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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. Innovators stressed that without effective change management, the best technology tools and the most elegant personalized learning models will come up short.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. The Every Student Succeeds Act begins to create room for states to use a more expansive set of learning providers and to report student success in a variety of ways.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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