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Southern New Hampshire University’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

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Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. And in 2015, the Obama administration tapped LeBlanc to advise Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell on competency-based education. earlier this month.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. The TED Talk. He was right.

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