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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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

billion (RMB 241 billion) in contrast to a year earlier, according to a recent report by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology. Within the Chinese education sector, three sectors saw a concentration of investments: competency-based education; language learning; education “informazation.”. See full-size image.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Smarter Learning Management Systems. With that in mind, I started out with the more common, perhaps less exciting examples.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As our paradigms change with tech and culture, and pressures mount to increase achievement and stop attrition of student to alternatives, so do the views of what personalized learning actually is. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. This is definitely not the first time that educators have raised eyebrows at the traditional A through F evaluation standard.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma. You can find the official definition here.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. It’s everyone getting what they need.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Teaching to a Range of Maturity Levels By definition, a self-paced model allows for more differentiation. This system can help a student like Chris feel comfortable asking Layla for help because she has already mastered the content. Capitalize on peer obsessions in a positive way. Care for and support students when they most need it.

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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. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

This is a shift in how we think about partnering with entrepreneurs, by leveraging technology services and products from them and partnering with other stakeholders that traditionally have not been what Lumina has worked with. I would say there’s a shift away from the traditional focus on seat-based or hour-based credentialing.

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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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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

JULY 16, 2019

So I’ve been preaching that wholesale mastery learning isn’t realistic because you have to really think about your grade system. I definitely appreciate how hard it is if you’re in a more traditional structure to do mass change. Some of the kids not as well.” And then you get to a point where they hit walls.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Phill and Graham had a wonderful conversation on the topic of e-learning and explored six key digital learning trends that are reshaping the EdTech landscape. Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning. It’s very restricted, very simple.

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Trends Digital Learning EdTech Gamification 317

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. Think of flipped as the operating system of education. Think of flipped as the operating system of education. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We have a frank conversation about technology and a win in the National 4H Competition as a result of some apps he made in my class. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. laughs) Definitely not. Definitely perseverance.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Since then, CBE has trickled down into the K-12 system, where enthusiasm and support have led to statewide policies supporting the development of such programs in regions like New England. What role does technology play?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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