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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

One solution my district is beginning to explore is a competency-based learning system, and I am on a team of teachers and administrators working for the change. For various reasons, school districts have been slow to shift from the traditional seat-time systems of education to a more modern model that heralds personal learning.

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. However, the events of 2020 have put HE on a fast track to digital adoption. Competency-based learning. Change is inevitable.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups.

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7 must-knows from blended learning’s early adopters

eSchool News

Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. 2 Go Slow to Go Fast When Implementing Competency-Based Models. 3 Make Students Agents of Their Learning.

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6 tips from personalized learning innovators leading change

eSchool News

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. This time is helping to prevent burnout and helping teachers learn to let go of what they’ve always done,” he said.

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How to support your students’ executive functioning skills with the help of your LMS

Neo LMS

Students use calendars to keep up with tasks, upcoming events, and more. Read more: Top 7 remote learning tips your students should know. For example, students can set learning goals such as “Learn fractions” and the platform will automatically show them content recommendations such as “watch this video about fractions.”.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come. Seventeen plus years ago when I joined the Foundation as its executive director, the mission was much different.