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?Higher Ed Innovators Maze: Where to Go, How to Start, How to Get There

Edsurge

“Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. We need to think of implementing tech as a design exercise.

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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Olivia Mone, Melrose High School senior on competency-based learning. “It Acevedo sees teacher buy-in as evidence that competency-based learning is working in Melrose. “I

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Amazing Grace Adkins – my 89 year old learning lab director and the most amazing woman I know

The CoolCatTeacher

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

Edsurge

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. EdSurge is on the road.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Through examinations of classroom surveys such as Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up , the Flipped Learning Global Initiative estimates that around 16 percent of U.S. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it.