Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. The student explained that she was mapping out the party for her teacher and was creating a planning document for the party that included costs, supplies, and the number of guests that would attend.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. However, with the publication of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” the conversations changed and the idea began to gain traction.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Educators are fundamentally learners, as well as masters of assessing and adjusting learning opportunities. Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. This is something I would have welcomed while in the classroom.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

AUGUST 10, 2021

Yet the more I think about education and the more I chat with educators from around the world, the more convinced I am that one of the great needs in education is to move to a Mastery/Competency Based learning model. In this post, I will share with you portions of the documents my students will receive on the first day.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on innovation challenges at higher education institutions. Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation. Evangeline J.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 10, 2019

Earlier this month Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB19-216, creating the High School Innovative Learning Pilot Program. Expanding Innovative Learning Opportunities. This means schools will be able to look beyond the classroom for new learning experiences. Building on 10 Years of Experience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course. Pacansky-Brock: With learning, we focus so much on [the content they learned]. That's part of learning too.

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Online Learning Competency Based Learning Blackboard Course 126

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

A significant number of K-12 teachers looking to move away from student success measures that focus on standardized testing and grades are turning towards eportfolios, online websites showcasing projects tied to learning objectives. Seeing a student in high school learning how to do it doesn’t often happen. I was like, wow!

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ePortfolio Social Media Adobe Survey 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

. — Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago. “If Now, Savard says, learning targets are clearer, and there’s more opportunity to truly understand the material. It’s better than it was.”. It’s gone.”.

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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. To me, proficiency-based education is about drawing lines in the sand of learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Every student is unique and learns differently. Around the country, schools using this approach are documenting student success. And this approach is growing.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As schools begin to invest in competency-based education (CBE) and higher ed institutions set up competency-based programs, two of the big questions often unanswered become “is their focus on education or on learning ?” First and Foremost, Focus on Learning. We all need to learn how to learn.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 25, 2015

Learning to read, write, and participate in the digital world has become the 4th basic foundational skill next to the three Rs—reading, writing, and arithmetic—in a rapidly evolving, networked world. In the 21st century, learning can take place anytime, anywhere, at any pace, and with the learner at the center.

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Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Industry 33

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

People are quite comfortable picking the first of the five parts—students advance upon demonstrated mastery—and focusing on pace rather than helping every student successfully learn. In the traditional system, schools don’t do much if students don’t learn what is required; most students are going to get promoted anyway.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Look for achievable steps that point toward large-scale change to a competency-based system. The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions.

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Education Conference System Report 108

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Then I asked participants to think about lessons learned from puncturing that myth. Actually, profs use them primarily to share documents. After this we discussed other myths and what we learn from thinking this way. So gaming beat virtual worlds, and at least one person saw competency-based learning trumping MOOCs.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Childcare, work, documentation status, and the many “hoops” students have to jump through to get a college degree are often some of the biggest barriers. It’s not a safe space where they’re made to feel like a participant in their learning.”. They’ve been made to feel that they can’t succeed in higher ed.

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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. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. The greatest trick the ed-tech devil ever played was convincing people that clicking was “active learning.”)

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.” Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.).

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