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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Higher Education (HE) has significantly lagged behind other industries on the road to digitization. Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. Competency-based learning. Final thoughts.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom.

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Territorium Launches First AI-Powered Comprehensive Learner Record for Higher Ed and K-12, TerritoriumCLR™

eSchool News

TerritoriumCLR captures all aspects of learning and activities, in school and in life, into a complete competencies and skills transcript, empowering students to optimize their education and career. “We are thrilled to bring our Comprehensive Learner Record to U.S.

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Supporting Teachers: Our Hoover Dam

ExcelinEd

Second, states can help districts provide teachers with the personalized and competency-based learning structures they need to develop new skills at their own pace. This is not a realistic expectation and leaves teachers with less time to focus on instruction.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels

Edsurge

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. For us, it starts by marrying the traditional, content-driven coursework with performance-based assessment.

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Does Your District Have a Solid Data Foundation?

Tom Murray

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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