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Here’s What Happens When Every Student Gets a Personalized Learning Plan

Edsurge

Vermont’s Agency of Education (AOE) defines flexible pathways as “any combination of high-quality academic and experiential components leading to secondary school completion and postsecondary readiness.” Other students are enrolled in online courses at both the secondary and postsecondary level.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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WGU President Scott Pulsipher on Bringing Customer-Centric Culture to Universities

Edsurge

And my background from Amazon, but even in general building a startup company, everything starts with that customer. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do.

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Innovative Colleges That Give Students Real-World Experiences

MindShift

Innovative models of education are not just limited to primary and secondary education, they are also scattered throughout higher education. 3 It’s a win-win for the students and their host companies, who often end up making job offers to the students. Enrolling in the Real World.

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Acquisition & the Teacher

Fractus Learning

Textbooks all focus on it, seminars are dedicated to it and training programs will not pass you if you cannot demonstrate it in your classroom. Acquisition is what happens to all individuals while they’re traversing the world, whether alone or with company. What is the teacher’s role in an acquisition-oriented learning model?

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Racial gaps in college degrees are widening, just when states need them to narrow

The Hechinger Report

You don’t have the companies if you don’t have the workers. At Metropolitan State University of Denver, or MSU, for example, low-income and racial and ethnic minority students this summer are taking an online “success seminar” to teach them time management and study skills as part of a new program called Pathways to Possible.

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

After getting a master’s degree in nuclear fusion (MIT), Kelly held engineering and marketing roles at various technology companies. He is the founder and CEO of Prenda (prendaschool.com), an education company that helps people run microschools out of their homes. John’s and many dozens of other post-secondary institutions.